Crossword-Solution: NEREUS
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEREUS | anagram | ENSUER, ENSURE, ENURES, REUNES |
We have 21 clues for the answer “NEREUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| God of the Greek seas | 1 answer |
| Sea-dwelling Greek god | 1 answer |
| Sea god of Greek myth | 1 answer |
| NEREIS, father of | 1 answer |
| NEREID, father of | 1 answer |
| Mythical sea god | 1 answer |
| He had fifty daughters. | 1 answer |
| Greek sea-god | 1 answer |
| Shape-shifting Aegean Sea god | 1 answer |
| GALATEA, father of | 1 answer |
| Father of the water nymphs | 1 answer |
| Father of 50 sea nymphs. | 1 answer |
| DORIS, husband of | 1 answer |
| AMPHITRITE, father of | 1 answer |
| THETIS, father of | 1 answer |
| Mythical Aegean Sea dweller | 2 answers |
| Shape-shifting Greek god | 2 answers |
| Greek sea god | 4 answers |
| Sea god | 7 answers |
| A SEA GOD | 10 answers |
| Babylonian god water | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EACZEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with NEREUS (5)
Pastor Cum [Translation from Horace] When he, that shepherd false, 'neath Phrygian sails, Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas, In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the gales, That he might sing their future destinies.
And all the people envied him in their hearts seeing how he had sacked the well-built city, and accomplished his joyous marriage; and they all spake this word: “Thrice, yea, four times blessed son of Aeacus, happy Peleus! For far-seeing Olympian Zeus has given you a wife with many gifts and the blessed gods have brought your marriage fully to pass, and in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus.
But silver-shod Thetis the daughter of Nereus took and cared for him with her sisters: would that she had done other service to the blessed gods! O wicked one and crafty! What else will you now devise? How dared you by yourself give birth to bright-eyed Athena? Would not I have borne you a child—I, who was at least called your wife among the undying gods who hold wide heaven.
The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight to aged Nereus' hall; Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head, And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodil, And through the porch and inlet of each sense Dropt in ambrosial oils, till she revived, And underwent a quick immortal change, Made Goddess of the river.
XXVIII "Nereus less fair, Achilles was less strong, Less was Ulysses famed for daring feat; Nestor, that knew so much and lived so long, Less prudent; nimble Ladas was less fleet; Less liberal and less prompt to pardon wrong, Caesar, whose praises ancient tales repeat.
Quotes with NEREUS (2)
Corvid looked up at her. "Oh, hello Doris.""Gertie, dear," she said. "They call me Gertie.""You used to be Doris," Corvid said as a matter of fact." Who?" She seemed unsure of what she was being told." Doris, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys?" Corvid carried on when he saw her blank expression. "You must remember Nereus? Your husband?" Nothing." You gave birth to fifty sea nymphs. I guess sea nymphs come out slippy and hydrodynamic, but even so, fifty of them? That must stick i…
Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water. A whole bunch of tourists went, "
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1949–2016).