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Nymph, in Greek mythology, any of a large class of inferior female divinities. The nymphs were usually associated with fertile, growing things, such as trees, or with water. They were not immortal but were extremely long-lived and were on the whole kindl
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/ nImf; nImf/ n 1 (in Greek and Roman mythology) minor goddess living in rivers, trees, hills, etc (希腊与罗马神话)(居住在河里、林中、 山上等的)小仙女. 2 (esp in poetry 尤用於诗中) young woman, esp a beautiful one 少 1827女; (尤指)妙龄美女. Cf 参看 sylph. 3 young insect (...
Cyrene, in Greek mythology, a nymph, daughter of Hypseus (king of the Lapiths) and Chlidanope (a Naiad). One day Cyrene wrestled a lion that had attacked her father’s flocks. Apollo, who was watching, fell in love with her and carried her off from Mount
Arethusa, in Greek mythology, a nymph who gave her name to a spring in Elis and to another on the island of Ortygia, near Syracuse. The river god Alpheus fell in love with Arethusa, who was in the retinue of Artemis. Arethusa fled to Ortygia, where she was changed into a spring. Alp...
Daphnis, legendary hero of the shepherds of Sicily and the reputed inventor of bucolic poetry. According to tradition, Daphnis was the son of Hermes and a Sicilian nymph and was found by shepherds in a grove of laurels (Greek daphnē). He later won the a