Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tethys

The sea, properly the wife of Oceanos.

The golden sun above the watery bed
Of hoary Tethys raised his beamy head.

Hoole's Ariosto, bk. viii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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