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There are about 40 Nymphs mentioned but it is not mentioned what type they are.

Named by Unclassified Nymphs

Name	Referenced in	Details
Adrastia	Apollodorus 1.16; Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus	One of the nurses of Zeus. She was the daughter of Melisseus, King of Helicon in western Boeotia. Her sister Ide also nursed Zeus.
Aglaia	Hyginus Fabulae 97	Mother, by Charopus, of Nireus, who is an Acheaean leader, and a suitor of Helen.
Alcinoe	Pausinias 8.47.3	A nurse of Zeus
Anchiala	pollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1127	Cretan Nymph, mother of the Dactyls.
Anchiroe	Pausinias 8.31.4	Arcadian Nymph
Anna Perenna	Ovid Fasti 3.65.3ff	Nymph of the river Numicius. Sometimes identified with the moon, sometimes with Themis or Io .
Anthedon	Pausinias 9.22.5	Boeotian Nymph, from whom the Boeotian city received its name.
Anthracia	Pausinias 8.31.4	Arcadian Nymph.
Arethusa	Ovid Metamorpheses 5.573ff.; Pausinias 5.7.2; Virgil Aeneid 3.694.	Nymph of a spring. She was a huntress with whom the river god Alpheus fell in love. Arethusa, unwilling to marry, crossed to the island Ortygia, and there turned from a woman to a spring. But when she changed into a spring the river Alpheus mingled with it its own waters.
Argiope	Apollodorus, The Library, "Epitome" 1.3.	Mother of Cercyon according to Apollodorus, Cercyon was an Arcadian, who compelled passers-by to wrestle, and in wrestling killed them. Theseus, who started his career by killing evil-doers, lifted him up and dashed him to the ground, and thereafter he ravished his daughter.
Argiope (another)	Apollodorus 1.3.3	Mother by Philammon, who was famous for his song and zither, of Thamyris. This Thamyris was a Thracian who loved Hyacinthus. He was the first man to become enamoured of males. He excelled in minstrelsy and engaged in a musical contest with the Muses. Having lost, they took his eyes and his voice. He is still being punished in Hades for his boast against the Muses.
Arne (also called Melanippe)	Dionysus 4.67.3-4; Hyginus Fabulae 186; Pausinias 9.1.1, 9.40.5	According to some mother of Boeotus, after whom the Boeotians are called, either by Itonus or by Poseidon; Aeolus is said to be her son by this god. Arne was daughter either of Aeolus, or of Aeolus and Cyane, or of Desmontes. She was blamed by her father for being pregnant and handed over to Metapontus, whom she married without having issue by him.
Astacia	Nonnus 16.405	Dionysus named a city after her.
Asterodia	Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.240	Caucasian Nymph. According to some, mother, by King Aeetes, of Apsyrtus, Medea's brother
Asterope (also called Hesperia )	Ovid Metamorpheses 11.771.; Apollodorus 3.12.5	Daughter of the River God Cebren and lover of Aesacus, son of King Priam of Troy. She was killed by the bite of a serpent. Some say that when Asterope died he mourned for her and was turned into a bird, but others say that he hurled himself down into the sea and Tethys transformed him into a diving bird.
Calliphaeia	Pausinias 6.22.7; Strabo Geography 8.3.32	One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis. They were believed to cure diseases. (These were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea and Iasis.)
Calybe	Apollodorus 3.12.3	Mother of Bucolion, the first son of King Laomedon of Troy, offspring of a secret love.
Calypso	Several	See Greek Mythology Page
Carmentis	Strabinus Geography 5.3.3; Pausinias 8.43.2; Virgil Aeneid 8.336ff.	Daughter of the River God Ladon. Carmentis was skilled in the art of divination. She was the first to foretell how great Aeneas' line would become. She was mother by Hermes of Evander, the wisest man among the Arcadians. Evander emigrated to Italy and founded a city, Pallantium, on the banks of the river Tiber.
Carthago	Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.42	A Tyrian Nymph, daughter of Heracles, son of Zeus and Asteria.
Cassotis	Pausinias 10.24.7	A Nymph of Parnassus from whom a spring at Delphi received its name.
Chariclo	Apollodorus 3.6.7	Mother of the famous seer Tiresias.
Chloris	Ovid Fasti 5.195ff	Chloris is Flora, the mother of the flowers. She consorted with Zephyrus, the West Wind.
Chryse	Sophocles, Philoctetes 1326	A Nymph whose tutelary snake punished Philoctetes for having profaned the soil of her shrine.
Chrysopelia	Apollodorus 3.9.1	According to some wife of Arcas. Arcas named the land Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and succeeded Nyctimus on the throne.
Cleodora	Pausinias 10.6.1	Mother by Poseidon or Cleopompus of Parnassus after whom Mount Parnassus was named.
Clonia	Apollodorus 3.10.1; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 25.	Wife of the very rich man Hyrieus.
Clymene	Hyginus Fabulae 71	Wife of Parthenopaeus, one of the seven against Thebes.
Cnossia	Apollodorus 3.11.1	Mistress of Menelaus and mother by him of Xenodamus.
Cnossia	Apollodorus 3.11.1	Mistress of Menelaus and mother by him of Xenodamus.
Coronis	Apollodorus 3.10.3, Hesiod, Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 89;Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3.209; Hyginus Fabulae 14; Ovid Fasti 1.291; Pasinias 2.26.6; Pindar, Pythian (Odes) 3.8ff	Daughter of Phlegyas (King of the Phlegyans in Boeotia) or of Azan (after whom the district of Azania was called). Mother by Apollo of Asclepius. She had intercourse with Ischys, whom she preferred before Apollo, and for this the god killed her while still pregnant and snatched the babe from the pyre. Others say that Artemis punish her for insulting her brother, it being Hermes who snatched the child from the pyre.
Corycia	Pausinias 10.6.3	After her the Corycian cave was called. Mother of Lycorus (after whom the city Lycoreia was named) by Apollo.
Cranae	Ovid Fasti 6.107ff.	A Nymph from near an ancient grove of Alernus near the Tiber. She had many suitors and when requested pretended to follow them but always deserted them. Was given by Janus the control of hinges for the maidenhood he took.
Crocale	Ovid Metamorpheses 3.171	A Nymph in the train of Artemis.
Cymodoce	Virgil Aenied 10.220ff	Cymodoce was once a ship and was transformed into a Sea-Nymph
Cynosura	Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica 2.2; Hyginus Fabulae 224.	Cynosura ,one of the nurses of Zeus, was made immortal and put among the constellations.
Cyrene	Apollodorus 1.9.13, 2.5.8; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.500ff.; Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 92; Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 208; Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 4.81.1-2; Hyginus Fabulae 14; Nonnus 29.185; Pausinias 1.43.5; Pindar, Pythian (Odes) 9.25.	Daughter of Hypseus (son of Peneus, one of the river gods) and Nymph. She was reared near Mount Pelion in Thessaly and was extraordinarily beautiful. Apollo found her without spears wrestling alone with a lion and carried her off to that part of Libya where in later times he founded a city and named it, after her, Cyrene. By Apollo or by Abas (son of Melampus, son of Amythaon, son of Cretheus, son of Aeolus) she became mother of Idmon, Coeranus, and Lysimache. Aristaeus is called son of Apollo and Cyrene. By Ares she had Diomedes, the King of the Bistonians in Thrace, owner of man-eating mares.
Danais	Plutarch, Moralia (Greek and Roman Parallel Stories)33	Mother by Pelops of Chrysippus. Laius (Oedipus' father) fell in love with this illegitimate son of Pelops and carried him off. However, Pelops recovered him through war.
Daphnis	Pausinias 10.5.5	In the earliest times, the prophetess of Gaia in Delphi.
Daulis Pau.10.4.7.	Pausinias 10.4.7	Daughter of the River God Cephisus. After her the city Daulis in Phocis was named.
Deiopea	Virgil Aeneid 1.70; Virgil Geogics 4.343	A fair Nymph that Hera promised in marriage to Aeolus if he would lash fury into the winds against the ships of Aeneas. She is found in the train of Cyrene.
Dercetis	Statius, Thebaid 7.298	Dercetis seduced the boy Lapithaon, still unripe for a lover's flames. Their son Alatreus was a defender of Thebes against the seven.
Dionysus' nurses		Acrete, Aegle, Ambrosia, Bryusa, Callichore, Calyce, Ereutho, Eupetale, Harpe, Hyades, Ione, Lycaste, Macris, Methe, Nymphs Dodonides, Famusides, Ocynoe, Oinanthe, Prothoe, Rhode, Silene, Stesichore, Trygie.
Dryope	Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 32; Ovid, Methamorphoses 9.329ff., 9.350ff.	Daughter of Eurytus, prince of Oechalia, or of Dryops, son of Sperchius (one of the RIVER GODS). Originally the most beautiful of the Oechalian girls, but later turned into a Nymph by the Nymphs, though some say she was turned into a Lotus tree. She had a son Amphissus by Apollo, and she also consorted with Andraemon, son of Oxylus, the man who helped the Heraclides.
Dryope(#2)	Virgil Aeneids.10.550ff.	Mother by Faunus, King of Latium, of Tarquitus. Faunus is a half-goat god, sometimes identified with Pan or with a Satyr. Tarquitus was an ally of Turnus in the war against Aeneas in Italy. Both Tarquitus and Turnus were killed by Aeneas.
Dryope	Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.545ff.	This Nymph is the snatcher of Hylas. Hylas, a minion of Heracles, was ravished to death by Nymphs in Mysia on account of his beauty.
Echenais	Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances 29.1-2.	Echenais bade her lover Daphnis never have to do with mortal women; if he disobeyed, his fate would be to lose his eyes, which in time came to pass.
Echo	Hesiod and so on	See Greek Mythology
Egeria	Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities 2.60.5; Ovid Fasti 3.275; Plutarch Numa 4.2; Virgil Aenide 7.775	Nymph and goddess. She took care of Hippolytus 4, son of Theseus, after he was raised from the dead, until he changed his name and became Virbius. She used to visit Numa (the second king of Rome who is said to have visited Pythagoras) and instruct him in the art of reigning.
Eidothea	Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 22	Mother of Cerambus, who was borne up into the air on wings by the Nymphs. Cerambus escaped The Flood of Deucalion 1 undrowned. Or perhaps he insulted the Nymphs and was changed by them into a beetle.
Epimeliads	Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 31; Pausinias 8.4.2	Protectors of sheep.
Ethemea	Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 15; Hyginus Poetica Astronomica 2.16	Ethemea was struck with the arrows of Artemis for having ceased worshipping her and taken alive by Persephone to the Land of the Dead. Ethemea consorted with the ruler of Cos Meropes, who was turned into an eagle by Hera, and they had a child Eumelus who was turned into a raven by Hermes.
Euryte	Apollodorus 2.14.2	Euryte is mother of Halirrhothius, who was killed by Ares while attempting to violate Alcippe.
Glauce	Pausinias 8.47.3.	Nurse of Zeus.
Hagno	Pausinias 8.31.4,8.38.3	Arcadian Nymph, nurse of Zeus.
Harmonia	Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.990.	A Nymph who was loved by Ares in the glens of the Acmonian wood. The Amazons are their offspring.
Hegetoria	Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.57.7.	Mother by Ochimus of Cyrbia. After her Cyrbe in Rhodes is called, which was destroyed by the Flood. Ochimus is the oldest of the Heliadesand their king.
Helice	Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica 2.2, 2.13	Nurse of Zeus. Daughter of Olenus after whom the city Olenus in Aulis was named.
Helice (another)	Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances 20	Mother by Oenopion, King of Chios, of Merope who was outraged by Orion.
Hesperides	Hesiod et. al	See Greek Mythology
Himalia	Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.55.6	Mother by Zeus of Cronius 2, Spartaeus and Cytus.
Hora	Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.48ff.	Her body was half-human and half-snake. Mother by Zeus of Colaxes, a chieftain in the army of Perses during the civil war in Colchis between Perses and Aeetes. This Colaxes was killed by Jason, Captain of the Argonauts.
Hyades	Hesiod et.al.	Nurse of Zeus. Daughter of Olenus 1 after whom the city Olenus in Aulis was named.
Helice	Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica 2.2, 2.13	See Greek Mythology
Hyale	Ovid Metamorphes 3.171	Nymph in the train of Artemis.
Iasis	Pausinias 6.22.7; Strabo, Geography 8.3.32	One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis. They were believed to cure diseases. (These were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea and Iasis.)
Idaea	Apollodorus 3.12.1-3	Wife of the River God Scamander
Ide	Apollodorus 1.1.6	Nurse of Zeus. Daughter of Melisseus, King of Helicon.
Ismenis	Statius, Thebaid 9.319.	Consorted with Faunus and their son Crenaeus was a defender of Thebes against the seven tyrants. Crenaeus was killed by Hippomedon at Thebes.
Ithome	Messenian account	Nurse of Zeus
Limnaee	Ovid, Methamorphoses 5.47	Nymph of the Ganges and mother of Athis, who was killed in Ethiopia by Perseus
Liriope	Ovid Metamorphes 3.342	Mother, by the River God Cephisus, of Narcissus who fell in love with himself or with his sister and was transformed into a flower. But others say that Narcissus was son of Endymion & Selene.
Lotis	Ovid Metamorphes 9.347	This Nymph transformed into a lotus while fleeing from the phallic deity Priapus.
Lygea	Virgil, Georgics 4.336	Nymph in the train of Cyrene.
Marica	Virgil, The Aeneid 7.48	A Laurentian Nymph. According to some she was mother of King Latinus of Latium, who was succeeded by Aeneas.
Melie	Apollodorus 1.9.20, 2.5.9; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1; Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.119	Bithynian Nymph. Mother by Poseidon of Amycus, King of the Bebrycians, who compelled strangers to box as a way of killing them. He was himself killed by the Argonaut Polydeuces, who is one of the Dioscuri. Melie was as well mother of Mygdon, who also was King of the Bebrycians and once fought with Priam against the Amazons. Mygdon was killed by Heracles.
Menodice	Hyginus, Fabulae 14	Daughter of Orion and mother of Hylas.
Mideia	Pausinias 9.38.9	Mother of Aspledon after whom the place Aspledon near Boeotian Orchomenus was named.
Moria	Nonnus 25.481ff.	A Nymph who having seen Tylos dead, asked Damasen for help in order to kill the serpent which had killed Tylos. She could restore Tylos to life using a lifegiving herb (the flower of Zeus) in the same manner as a second serpent had done to give life back to its male partner, the first serpent which had killed Tylos.
Myrtoessa	Pausinias 8.31.4.	Arcadian Nymph.
Neda	Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 33; Pausinias 4.33.1, 8.31.4, 8.38.3	Nurse of Zeus according to the Messenian account. From her the river takes it's name. She is the eldest of the Nymphs.
Nephele	Ovid, Metamorpheses 3.171	A Nymph in the train of Artemis.
Nicaea	Nonnus 15.171ff., 16.265, 16.400, 48.811, 48.880.	Huntress and nymph of Astacia with whom Hymnus fell in love. She grew angry and killed him as he was declaring his love for her. Later, having drunk wine, she fell asleep and Dionysus took her maidenhood. She had a daughter Telete by him.
Nomia	Pausinias 8.38.9	Nomia gave his name to the Nomian Mountains according to the Arcadians.
Nymph African	Virgil Aenides 4.198.	Mother of Iarbas, a Moor king, son of Zeus-Ammon, suitor of Dido but rejected by her.
Nymphs Cabiroides	Strabo Geography 10.3.21	These Nymphs are the daughters of the Cabiroi who in turn are the children of Hephaestus and Cabiro.
Nymph Chian	Pausinias 7.4.8	Mother of Chios.
Nymphs Corycian	Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.711; Nonnus 9.287; Ovid Metamorphes 1.320	Parnassian nymphs. Daughters of Pleistus and attendants of Apollo or Dionysus on Mount Parnassus. When the Flood was over and here Deucalion came to land, he first worshipped these mountain deities.
Nymphs Dodonides	Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica 2.21; Hyginus, Fabulae 182	These nymphs were nurses of Dionysus. They are said to have been put to flight by Lycurgus and all except Ambrosia took refuge with Thetis, one of the Nereids. It is also said that they brought Dionysus to Thebes and delivered him to Athamas's wife Ino, and for this reason Zeus rewarded them by putting them among the Constellations. The names of these nymphs were: Ambrosia, Arsinoe 6, Bromie, Cisseis, Coronis, Erato, Eriphe, Eudore, Nyse, Pedile, Phyto, Polyhymno, Polyxo,and Thyone.
Nymph Gygaean	Homer Iliad 2.864.	Mother of Antiphus and Mesthles, leaders of the Maeonians against the Achaean invaders during the Trojan War.
Nymph Heliconian	Statius, Thebaid 7.756	Mother of Aetion, a Defender of Thebes against the Seven. He was killed by Amphiaraus and Apollo at Thebes.
Nymph Meliad	Apollodorus 2.5.4;Strabo, Geography 12.4.8	Mother by Silenus of the Centaur Pholus. Silenus, one of the Satyrs, was the adviser and instructor of Dionysus
Nymph-NoName #1	Hyginus Fabulae 1, 4	Wife of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
Nymph-NoName #2	Pausinias 7.4.8	Mother by Poseidon of Melas and Agelus.
Nymph-NoName #3	Pausinias 10.12.7	Mother of Herophile, the second Sibyl at Delphi, who said that Helen would be the ruin of Asia and Europe. Herophile's father was Theodorus, a shepherd.
Nymph - NoName #4	Ovid Fasti 3.409	Mother of the young man Ampelus, who grown up in the Phrygian hills and was loved by Dionysus. Ampelus was killed by a bull and later turned into the vine.
Nymph - NoName #5	Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 6.465	Mother of Clitus, a Trojan who was killed by Podalirius during the Trojan War.
Nymph - NoName #6	Long.3.23	Mother of Echo.
Nymph -NoName #7	Strabo Geography 13.1.12	Mother by Dionysus of Priapus.
Nymph Sicilian	Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 4.84.2	Mother of Daphnis, son of Hermes. Daphnis was endowed with an unusual gift of song, and invented the bucolic or pastoral poem. His lover Echenai bade him never have to do with mortal women; if he disobeyed, his fate would be to lose his eyes. This happened when a Sicilian princess made him drunk and consorted with him. Something similar happened to Daphnis, a shepherd-boy of Ida, who was turned into a stone by a Nymph, out of jealousy.
Nymph Sithnid	Pausinias 1.40.1.	Mother by Zeus of Megarus who escaped the Flood in the time of Deucalion.
Nymph Symaethian	Ovid Metamorpheses 13.750.	Mother of Acis who was loved by Galatea. Acis was buried by a rock hurled at him by Polyphemus, out of jealousy, and was turned into a river.
Nymph Tarentine	Pausinias 10.10.8	Mother of Taras after whom the river and city in southern Italy are called.
Nymph Tritonian	Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1490ff.	Mother of Caphaurus who is said to have killed the Argonaut Canthus. Canthus died wandering in the furthest ends of Libya when he led off Caphaurus' sheep and the latter killed him with a stone. But some say that Canthus was killed by Gesander during the war between Aeetes and Perses. Caphaurus was killed by the Argonauts.
Ocynoe	Nonnus 14.219ff	One of the nurses of Dionysus who followed him in his Indian campaign.
Opis	Apollodorus 1.4.5; Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292; Herodotus, History 4.35; Nonnus 48.331	Hyperborean Nymph, daughter of the North Wind Boreas. Orion tried to rape her but she joined the train of Artemis.
Orithyia	Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 34	She was grandmother of Adonis.
Orphne	Ovid Metamorpheses 5.539	Mistress of the River God Acheron [a river in the Underworld].
Orseis	Apollodorus 1.7.2-3	Wife of Hellen, after whom all the ancient Greeks are named: Hellenes.
Othris	Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 13.	Consorted with both Zeus and Apollo. By Zeus she gave birth to Meliteus, and by Apollo to Phagros. She had to expose Meliteus by fear of Hera but the child was fed by bees and he later founded the city Melite in Phthia. Phagros brought up Meliteus, as some say.
Paria	Apollodorus 3.1.2	Concubine of King Minos of Crete.
Pegaea	Pausinias 6.22.7; Strabo Geography 8.3.32	One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis believed to cure diseases. They were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea and Iasis.)
Pegasis	Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 3.300	Mother of Atymnius, who was killed by Odysseus in the course of the Trojan war.
Penelope	Nonnus 14.219ff	She consorted with Hermes.
Phiale	Ovid Metamorpheses 3.171	She followed Artemis in her train of attendents.
Phrixa	Pausinias 8.47.3	Nurse of Zeus.
Pitys	Nonnus 2.118, 42.259	A maiden who hated marriage and fled to escape Pan until she disappeared into the soil.
Pomona	Ovid Metamorpheses 14.623, 14.770.	Pomona flourished under the reign of Proca and was a Latian Wood-Nymph who was skilled in garden-culture and the care of fruit-trees. She was seduced by Vertumnus, who had assumed the shape of an old woman.
Pronoe	Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 6.469	Mother of the Trojan Lassus, who was killed by Asclepius' son Podalirius during the Trojan War.
Psecas	Ovid Metamorpheses 3.171	She also followed Artemis in her train of attendents.
Rhanis	Ovid Metamorpheses 3.171	She also followed Artemis in her train of attendents.
Rhene	Homer Iliad 2.726; Hyginus Fabulae 97	Concubine of Oileus and mother of Ajax. She was also mother of Medon, another bastard son of Oileus. Medon replaced Philoctetes as chief against Troy and thus became commander of the Phthians.
Rhene	Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities 1.61.4; Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.48.1	SNymph of Cyllene, mother of Saon, also called Samon. Saon was a Samothracian, the first settler of the island, which was called after him and the name of Thrace.
Salmonis	Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.478	A Nymph ancestor of Jason, Captain of the Argonauts.
Sebethis	Virgil Aenides 7.733	Mother of Oebalus, an ally of Turnus against Aeneas in Italy. Her husband was Telon, King of Teleboan Capreae [Isle of Capri].
Sinoe	Pausinias 8.30.3	Nurse of Pan.
Sose	Nonnus 7.733	Mother of Agreus, one of the Pans who came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India.
Syllis	Pauinias 2.6.7	Mother of Zeuxippus, who became king of Sicyon when Phaestus migrated to Crete.
Synallasis	Pausinias 6.22.7; Strabo, Geography 8.3.32	One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis. They were believed to cure diseases. (These were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea and Iasis.)
Teledice	Apollodorus 2.1.1; Pausinias 1.39.5, 2.16.4, 2.35.4; Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances 1.1	Alleged wife of of Phoroneus, king of what later was named the Peloponnesus and said to be the first man.
Theisoa	Pausinias 8.38.3	Nurse of Zeus.
Thisbe	Pausinias 9.32.3	Boeotian Nymph. After her the city in Boeotia was named.
Thoosa	Apollodorus, The Library, "Epitome" 7.4; Homer Odysseus 1.71	Mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus, a huge, wild cannibal with one eye on his forehead, whom Odysseus blinded. Polyphemus was in love with Galatea but was refused by her. [See above Nymph Symaethian.]
Urea	Hesiod Hesiod, Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 83; Hyginus Fabulae 161	Daughter of Poseidon. Consorted with Apollo and gave birth to Ileus.
Venilia (Roman made up nymph)	Ovid Metamorpheses 14.320ff.; Virgil Aenides 10.76, 10.616, 12.138	Mother of Canens by Janus, and of Turnus and Juturna by Daunus. Canens was a gifted singer who melted away and vanished. Daunus was King of Apulia (southern Italy), the same who gave his daughter and lands to Diomedes. Turnus was King of the Rutulians in Italy, who opposed Aeneas, wished to marry Lavinia and was backed by her mother Amata of whom he was a nephew.Juturna became a goddess of lakes and rivers in return for the maidenhood Zeus had ravished.

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