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PEUKE

Greek Name

Πευκη

Transliteration

Peukê

Latin Spelling

Peuce

Translation

Of Peuce (island)

PEUKE (Peuce) was the Naiad-nymph of the springs of the island of Peuke at the mouth of the river Istros (the Danube) in western Skythia (now Romania).

PARENTS

Presumably a daughter of the River ISTROS

OFFSPRING

PEUKON (Valerius Flaccus 6.564)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 217 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
"An island, called Peuce from the name of the Sarmatian Nympha, stand where Hister [the Danube], savage stream, shoe either bank is ever terrible, flows down through his wild nurslings to the sea."

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6. 564 ff :
"Peucon [the Scythian] falls [in a war with King Aeetes of Colchis], his hair that curled over his dark temples still veiled in his [Naiad] mother's reeds; but at the self-same hour in her deep cave his Maeotian parent filled the lakes with lamentation as she called upon her son, who no more would scour the banks and undulating meres, nor slay hinds upon the marble [i.e. frozen] surface of mid-lake."