In Greek mythology, Limnoreia, Limnoria or LymnoriaHyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero) (The name comes from Greek roots related to water and land — limnē (λίμνη), meaning pool, lake, or salt-marsh and -roia / reo (ῥέω), connected to flowing water or streams.) was the Nereid of the salt marshes and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.Homer, Iliad 18.41; Apollodorus, 1.2.7 She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
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