Nesaea

Nesaea was one of the Nereids who gathered round Thetis in her sympathetic grief for Achilles' loss of Patroclus.[1] This name is used to describe a genus of plants in the family Lythraceae.

References

  1. ↑ Homer. Iliad, XVIII.


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