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  • The shipment, Dr. Zog Kadare noticed as he took the helper, stood in the hardliner under a joyful rainforest, of Irony's making, which seemed to lead into the waterfront and towards the seafood reaper of her fathom Thaumas, the Wondrous one.

    The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question) 2010

  • He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).

    Theaetetus 2007

  • And yet again he got great Thaumas and proud Phorcys, being mated with Earth, and fair-cheeked Ceto and Eurybia who has a heart of flint within her.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Plato says, that men admiring it feigned that it took origination from one Thaumas, which word signifies admiration.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • The Harpies, who, like the Furies, were employed by the gods as instruments for the punishment of the guilty, were three female divinities, daughters of Thaumas and Electra, called Aello, Ocypete, and Celæno.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • She united herself with the latter, and their offspring were the sea-deities Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Atlantis, _daughter of Atlas_; Thaumantias, _daughter of Thaumas_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Thaumas married the lovely Electra (whose name signifies the sparkling light produced by electricity), daughter of Oceanus.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift-footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea's wide back.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Iris, the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, personified the rainbow, and was the special attendant and messenger of the queen of heaven, whose commands she executed with singular tact, intelligence, and swiftness.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

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