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AISEPIDES

Greek Name

Νυμφαι Αισηπιδες

Transliteration

Nymphai Aisêpides

Latin Spelling

Nymphae Aesepides

Translation

Nymphs of Aesepus

THE AISEPIDES (Aesepides) were the Naiad-nymph of the Trojan river Aisepos in north-western Anatolia.


PARENTS

AISEPOS (Quintus Smyrnaeus 2.549)

NAMES

ABARBAREE (Homer Iliad 6.21)


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 2. 549 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
"[The Trojan ally Memnon was buried] by the deep flow of Aisepos' (Aesepus) stream, where is a fair grove of the bright-haired Nymphai (Nymphs), the which round his long barrow afterward Aisepos' daughters planted, screening it with many and manifold trees."


SOURCES

GREEK

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