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Tethys

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelleLove that moves the sun and the other stars

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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Τηθύς, -ύος, ἡ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Tēthys: yos, f., = Τηθύς,>
I a sea-goddess, wife of Oceanus, and mother of the seanymphs and river - gods; acc. Tethyn, Ov. F. 5, 81: Tethyos neptes, id. ib. 5, 168; Verg. G. 1, 31; Cat. 64, 29; 66, 70.—
II Transf., the sea, Ov. M. 2, 69; 2, 509; Luc. 1, 413; Sil. 3, 60; Mart. Spect. 3, 6; Sen. Herc. Fur. 886.