Proteus

Proteus was king of this land when he was alive, living on the island of Pharos and lord of Egypt;

Well, as long as Proteus saw this light of the sun, I was safe from marriage;

Proteus lives here, the land is Egypt.

and then, in the manner of some Proteus, changing and altering himself, finds a way to utter a voice neither of a man nor of a woman nor of any other animal, imitating a foul and androgynous creature, nor like a harlot who does this very thing harlotting, but as though uttering the very sound of the most shameful work and the most licentious act, and that too by day, when the sun is conspicuous, with many present.

There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of the Stranger Aphrodite;

This Proteus has a very attractive and well-appointed temple precinct at Memphis, south of the temple of Hephaestus.

When Thonis heard it, he sent this message the quickest way to Proteus at

There is an old immortal who lives under the sea hereabouts and whose name is Proteus.

Ajax was wrecked, for Poseidon drove him on to the great rocks of Gyrae;

whereon Agamemnon kissed his native soil, and shed tears of joy at finding himself in his own country.

Nor must anyone tell falsehoods about Proteus and Thetis, nor in any tragedy or in other poems bring in Hera disguised as a priestess collecting alms for the life-giving sons of Inachus, the Argive stream.