Nereus, who was nursed and educated by
the Waves, and afterwards dwelt in the Aegean
Sea, and became a famous Prophesier. He begot
50 Daughters by his Wife Doris, which Nymphs
were called after their Fathers name, Nereides.
Palaemon, and his Mother Ino, for this rea∣son
were made Sea-Deities. Ino's Husband
Athamas was distracted, and tore his Son Le∣archus
into pieces, and dashed him against the
Wall; Ino saw this, and feared lest the same
fate should come upon her self, and her other
Son Melicerta; wherefore she took her Son,
and with him threw her self into the Sea;
where they were made Sea-Deities, nothing
perished in the Waters but their Names, for
their former Names were lost in the Waves,
and they found new ones: She was called
Leucothea and he Palaemon by the Greeks, and
Portumnus by the Latins.
Glaucus, the Fisherman, became a Sea God
by a more pleasant way. For when he pulled
the Fish which he had caught, out of his Nets,
and laid them on the shore, he observed, that
by touching a certain Herb, the Fish recove∣red
their strength and leapt again in the Wa∣ter.
He wondred at so strange an Effect, and
had a desire to tast this Herb; when he had
tasted it, he followed his Fish, and leaping in∣to
the Water, became a God of the Sea. Ovid.
Metam. l. 13. Strabo.
To these we may add the Story of Canopus,
a God of the Aegyptians; who by the help
of Water gained a memorable Victory over
the God of the Chaldeans, when these two