Naiads

Reading notes

• The Festivals §9 Naiads

  Water-nymphs of rivers and springs at the feast.

• Metamorphoses §1.10 The Naiads

  Water-nymphs of the river Inachus, Io's sisters, who fail to recognize her as a heifer.

• Metamorphoses §1.11 watery sisters

  The Naiads (water-nymphs), Syrinx's sisters, who change her into marsh reeds to save her from Pan.

• Metamorphoses §2.19 Hesperian Naiads

  Water-nymphs of the West who bury Phaethon and inscribe his tomb.

• Metamorphoses §3.55 His sisters the naiads

  The Naiads, water-nymphs; sisters of Narcissus, who mourn him and cut their hair.

• Metamorphoses §8.220 naiads

  Water-nymphs; five of them, for slighting Achelous, were swept away and became the Echinades.

• Metamorphoses §10.286 Naiads

  Water-nymphs, Eurydice's companions when the snake struck her.

• Metamorphoses §14.467 Ausonian naiads held the places joined to Janus

  Italian water-nymphs of the spring by the shrine of Janus; at Venus's request they make the spring boil with sulphur to scald the Sabines -- an aetion for the hot springs (and the open gates of Janus in war).