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Definition of Nereus
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters the Nereids.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nereus
Literary usage of Nereus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1873)
"Nereus and Achilles in most ancient Latin Martyrologies. ... Nereus and Achilles,
are in the Acts said to have been two eunuchs.1 They were beheaded ..."
2. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch (1860)
"But the text places Pontus and Typhon before Nereus the father of Pontus.
After that Nereus and Pontus overflow, inasmuch as the sea is introduced in three ..."
3. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"And Tethys' grave, majestic pace, By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian
wizard's hook, ..."
4. The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art by Otto Seemann (1886)
"The eldest among them was Nereus. 1. Nereus and his Daughters. — Nereus presents
to us the calm and pleasant side of the sea. He appears as a kindly, ..."
5. The Church in Rome in the First Century: An Examination of Various by George Edmundson (1913)
"... sixth-century ' Acts of Nereus and Achilles.' I am inclined, however, to
connect the disobedience and banishment of Domitilla the virgin with the sudden ..."
6. Autobiography of Allen Jay: Born 1831, Died 1910 by Allen Jay (1910)
"Nereus MENDENHALL Allusion has been made in these pages while speaking of the
Baltimore Association work to Dr. Nereus Mendenhall and Delphina E. Mendenhall ..."
7. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Nereus. — Nereus, "the Ancient of the Sea," portrayed in his person and family
the multiform beauties of the sea. He was the issue of Pontos and Gaia, ..."
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