Tyro

, a beautiful nymph, daughter of Salmoneus king of Elis and Alcidice. She was treated with great severity by her mother-in-law Sidero, and at last removed from her father’s house by her uncle Cretheus. She became enamoured of the Enipeus; and as she often walked on the banks of the river, Neptune a umed the shape of her favourite lover, and gained her affections. She had two sons, Pelias and Neleus, by Neptune, whom she exposed, to conceal her incontinence from the world. The children were preserved by shepherds, and when they had arrived at years of maturity, they avenged their mother’s injuries by a a inating the cruel Sidero. Some time after her amour with Neptune, Tyro married her uncle Cretheus, by whom she had A myth a on, Pheres, and Æson. Tyro is often called Salmon is from her father. Homer , Ody ey , bk. 11 , li. 234 .— Pindar , Pythian , ch. 4 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .— Diodorus , bk. 4 .— Pro pert i us , bk. 1 , poem 13, li. 20 ; bk. 2 , poem 30, li. 51 ; bk. 3 , poem 19, li. 13 .— Ovid , Amores , bk. 3 , poem 6, li. 43 .— Ælian , Varia Hist or i a , bk. 12 , ch. 42 .