Nêrêïdes: numphai. n# ton arithmon eisi. Sophoklês: tôn hekatompodôn Nêrêïdôn akolouthoi.
cf.
nu 329,
nu 331, and see generally OCD(4) s.v. Nereus and s.v. nymphs.
[1] Of the calm sea.
[2] They included Thetis, mother of Achilles (
theta 294); and
Homer,
Iliad 18.39-49 names 33 others.
[3]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 718-19 (which has the singular 'follower'), with comment from the
scholia there. For what this might mean -- e.g. 50 Nereids each with two feet -- see in brief LSJ s.v.
e(katompou=s.
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