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Definition of Peneus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Peneidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Peneidae, Peneidae
Member holonyms: Tropical Prawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peneus
Literary usage of Peneus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"After surveying the place he returned to Therma. ley through which the Peneus
flows, was formed by Neptune. Whoever supposes that Neptune causes earthquakes ..."
2. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"Nearly through the centre of this plain, and in the direction above specified,
sweeps the Peneus, in a semicircular course. As it declines to the south soon ..."
3. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912)
"PLUNGE in cool Peneus' wave! There 't is well to sport in swimming, Songs with
chorded voices hymning, That the ill-starred folk we save. ..."
4. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"We travelled on the eaft fide of the Peneus, where the road ... ¡¡lands in the
middle, fo that the water of the Peneus might be confined on fome ..."
5. The Table Book by William Hone (1828)
"XLII 'rom " Thyestes," a Tragedy, by John Antigone. Love to wretched me. Crowne,
1681.J Our warring fathers never ventured more Peneus. ..."
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