A Nereid daughter of Nereus and Doris, named in Hesiod and Apollodorus among the fifty sea-sisters and in Homer's Iliad among those who mourn with Thetis — a catalogue name without independent myth.1
Hesiod counts Cymothoe among the lovely daughters of Nereus and Doris, set early in the roll beside Galene, Glauce, Speo, Thoe and lovely Halie. Apollodorus repeats her in the Bibliotheca's long list of Nereids born to the Old Man of the Sea.2
Homer names Cymothoe in the bright cave at the bottom of the sea when Thetis leads her sisters in lament — ox-eyed Halie and Cymothoe and Actaea among the throng beating their breasts for Achilles. Beyond these rolls she carries no episode of her own in the seven lenses of this atlas.3
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