In Greek mythology, potameides () is a name for nymphs of rivers.Larson, p. 8. It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes,Larson, p. 282 n. 19. who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1218–1220 (pp. 312, 313).
A scholium on the Iliad (a marginal note in a manuscript of the work), from the A family of scholia,Erbse, p. 3. states that () is the name given to nymphs of rivers.Scholia A on Homer's Iliad, 20.8 (Dindorf, p. 193).
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