Amphītrīte

, daughter of Ocean us and Tethys, married Neptune, though she had made a vow of perpetual celibacy. She had by him Triton, one of the sea deities. She had a statue at Corinth in the temple of Neptune. She is sometimes called Salatia, and is often taken for the sea itself. Varro , de Lingua Latina , bk. 4 .— Hesiod , Theogony , li. 930 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 .— Claudian , de Raptu Proser pinæ , bk. 1 , li. 104 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 1 , li. 14 .――One of the Nereides.