Nymphs

but in other respects you seem to me very like Nymphs and Satyrs.

except that wine does not gush up for you of itself when you thirst from some rock or glen, nor can you so easily have milk and honey, scratching the ground with your fingertips;

For the Nymphs and Dionysus do not receive those who need them in the same way;

I seem to hear the voices of young women, and they sound like those of the nymphs that haunt mountaintops, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass.

As the huntress Artemis goes forth upon the mountains of Taygetus or Erymanthus to hunt wild boars or deer, and the wood-nymphs, daughters of Aegis-bearing Zeus, take their sport along with her (then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids.

one of these he set apart for Hermes the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so;

He was preparing a feast for the Nymphs, I thought.

Nymphs of the rocks, may I and my wife, the daughter of Tyndareus, often sacrifice at home, in good fortune as now, and may my enemies suffer —meaning you and Orestes.

There was not a river absent except Okeanos, nor a single one of the nymphs that haunt fair groves, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass.

At that hour the clear-voiced nymphs are with him and move with nimble feet, singing by some spring of dark water, while Echo wails about the mountain-top, and the god on this side or on that of the choirs, or at times sidling into the midst, plies it nimbly with his feet.

The rich-haired Nymphs received him in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals.

For there were many of us, nymphs and marriageable maidens, playing together;

say he is the offspring of one of the flower-like Nymphs who inhabit this forest-clad hill.

As for the child, as soon as he sees the light of the sun, the deep-breasted mountain Nymphs who inhabit this great and holy mountain shall bring him up.

I shall surely be possessed of the nymphs to whom you purposely exposed me.

And it seems to be a sacred place of some nymphs and of Achelous, judging by the figurines and statues.

But do you not reckon it a proof of my superior beauty that the River Nymphs, goddesses as they are, bear as their offspring the Seileni, who resemble me more closely than they do you?

but if the young people were to have a flute accompaniment and dance figures depicting the Graces, the Horae, and the Nymphs, I believe that they would be far less wearied themselves and that the charms of the banquet would be greatly enhanced.