/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Leucothea [White Goddess]
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So Ino was called after she became a seanymph. Her son Palæmon, called by the Romans Portuʹnus, or Portumnus, was the protecting genius of harbours.
“By Leucothea’s lovely hands,
And her son who rules the strands!”
Milton: Comus, 896–7.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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