Nilus

The god of the river Nile in Egypt, a son of Oceanus and Tethys. He is the father of Chione and Memphis.

According to Pindar he is a son of Cronus.1

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References

Notes

  1. Pythian Odes iv, 90.

Sources

  • Hesiod. Theogony, 338.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 1.4.
  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid iv, 250.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.