god
Nymphs
Minor female nature-deities of springs, woods and hills.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.51 nymphs
Minor goddesses of springs, streams, and woods, to whose watery haunts early men kept.
- On the Nature of Things §6.32 nymphs
Minor water-deities; 'the wells of the nymphs' are simply the public springs into which the plague-stricken flung themselves to slake their thirst.