Peneios

American  

[pee-nyaws] / piˈnyɔs /

noun

1. Modern Greek name of Salambria.

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Example Sentences

Then, with a wild cry, she said, "Father Peneios, receive thy child," and she rushed into the stream, whose waters closed gently over her.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

In the vale of Tempe, where the stream of Peneios flows beneath the heights of Olympos towards the sea, the beautiful Daphne passed the days of her happy childhood.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

An ample vale Peneios floweth through, 'Mid bush and tree its curving shores it laves; The plain extendeth to the mountain caves, Above it lies Pharsalus, old and new.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

One day she was roaming along the winding banks of Peneios, when a lion sprang from a thicket across her path.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

And the Magnetes were led of Prothoos son of Tenthredon, even they that dwelt about Peneios and Pelion with trembling leafage.

From The Iliad by Homer