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Nephelēis, Nephelēidos

Nepheleias

noun (f., 3^rd Greek declension)

the daughter of Nephele, Helle
One of the companions of Diana

Abbreviations

Nephelē, ēs, f, = Νεφέλη. The wife of Athamas, mother of Phrixus and Helle, Hyg. Fab. 1, sq.; cf. id. Astr. 2, 20.

— Derivv. Nephelaeus, a, um, adj., Nephelaean: pecus, i. e. the ram that bore away Helle and Phrixus, Val. Fl. 1, 56.

— Nephelēias, adis, f., the daughter of Nephele, Helle, Luc. 9, 956.

— Nephe-lēis, idos, f., the daughter of Nephele, Helle, Ov. M. 11, 195.

— One of the companions of Diana, Ov. M. 3, 171.