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  • Inachus and Pineus, and how many loving rivers can I reckon up, whom beauty hath enthralled!

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Constantine, in the eleventh book of his husbandry, cap. 11, hath a pleasant tale of the pine-tree; [6025] she was once a fair maid, whom Pineus and Boreas, two co-rivals, dearly sought; but jealous Boreas broke her neck, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Officials were also sent to Pineus, King of Illyria, to demand payment of the tribute which was now in arrears, or, if he wished for an extension of time, to accept personal securities for its payment.

    The History of Rome, Vol. III 1905

  • Heaps of embers (Pineus acervus) are made, and water is thrown on the ground.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • Thermopylæ, and the riuer Pineus, euen to the sea side, it is the gardẽ of Grecia.]

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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