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Nereus

Nereus · m

the son of Oceanus and Tethys, a seagod, the husband of Doris, and father of the Nereids

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nēreus — Lewis & Short

Nēreus (dissyl.), i and ĕos, m., = *nhreu/s,

I the son of Oceanus and Tethys, a seagod, the husband of Doris, and father of the Nereids, Ov. M. 13, 742; Prop. 3, 5, 33 (4, 6, 67); Verg. A. 8, 383: Nerei filii, sea-monsters, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 733 P. (Trag. v. 138 Vahl.); Ov. Am. 2, 11, 39; Verg. A. 2, 418 Forbig. ad loc.; Petr. 139.—

B Transf. (poet.), the sea: placidum per Nerea, Tib. 4, 1, 58: quā totum Nereus circumtonat orbem. Ov. M. 1, 187; Val. Fl. 1, 450; Luc. 2, 713.—

II Hence,

A Nērē^is, ĭdis, f., a daughter of Nereus, a sea-nymph, Nereia: virides Nereides, Ov. H. 5, 57: Nereida colligit orbam, id. M. 11, 380: aequoreae Nereides, Cat. 64, 15: Nereis caerula Thetis, Tib. 1, 6, 9 (5, 45).—Acc. to Hyg. Fab. praef. there were fifty of them; acc. to Prop. 3, 5, 33 (4, 6, 67), a hundred.—

B Nērēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Nereus: genetrix Nereia, Ov. M. 13, 162: juvenis, Phocus, grandson of Nereus, id. ib. 7, 685: Nereia Doto, daughter of Nereus, Verg. A. 9, 102: Nereia turba, the Nereids, Sil. 7, 416: Nereia bacca, pearls, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 591—

C Nērīnē, ēs, f., = Nereis, Nerine: Nerine Galatea, thymo mihi dulcior Hyblae, Verg. E. 7, 37. —

D Nērīnus, a, um, adj., = Nereïus, of or belonging to Nereus, Nerine: Nerinae aquae, sea-water, Nemes. Ecl. 4, 52: animantia Nerina, fishes, Aus. Ep. 4, 55.

In the wild

Nereus Horace, Carmina 1.15
Nereus Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Nereus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.658
Nereus Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.496
Nereus Ovid, Epistulae 9.14
Nereus Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.384

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