Potameides
Nymphs of rivers
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In Greek mythology, potameides (Ancient Greek: ποταμηίδες) is a name for nymphs of rivers.[1] It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes,[2] who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:[3]
All the watery meadows shook at her footstep, and the marsh-dwelling river nymphs [ποταμηίδες] wailed, those who dance around that marshy meadow of Amarantian Phasis.
A scholium on the Iliad (a marginal note in a manuscript of the work), from the A family of scholia,[4] states that epipotamídes (ἐπιποταμίδες) is the name given to nymphs of rivers.[5]