Tethys

, the greatest of the sea deities, was wife of Ocean us, and daughter of Uranus and Terra. She was mother of the chiefest rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Mæander, Simois, Peneus, Evenus, Scamander, . , and about 3000 daughters called Oceanides. Tethys is confounded by some mythologists with her granddaughter Thetis the wife of Peleus, and the mother of Achilles. The word Tethys is poetically used to expre the sea. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 1 , . — Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 31 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 509 ; bk. 9 , li. 498 ; Fasti , bk. 2 , li. 191 .— Hesiod , Theogony , li. 336 .— Homer , Iliad , bk. 14 , li. 302 .