Cephisus

Role: river deity · First appears: Fable 35

Fable 35

• child: Narcissus “And now, the son of Cephisus had added one to three times five years, and he might seem to be a boy and a young man as well.”
• with Liriope (Cephisus sexually assaults Liriope.) “The azure Liriope[68] was the first to make essay and experiment of his infallible voice; whom once Cephisus encircled in his winding stream, and offered violence to, {when} enclosed by his waters.”

Fable 64

• child: Praxithea (Parent-to-child direction.) “The river Cephisus, in Bœotia, had a daughter, Praxithea.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.