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Let us first approach the river-gods, or patrons of the flux.
Theaetetus 2007
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Therefore I think that we had better begin by considering those whom we first accosted, ‘the river-gods,’ and, if we find any truth in them, we will help them to pull us over, and try to get away from the others.
Theaetetus 2007
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Magnus, and abounds in ponderous allegories — nymphs, and river-gods, and pyramids crowned with fleurs-de-lis; Louis passing over the Rhine in triumph, and the Dutch Lion giving up the ghost, in the year of our Lord 1672.
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Saturn of a stream — a divinity yet, though younger river-gods have deposed him.
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Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a ‘personal share’ in the Water Company.
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The boys married nymphs and the girls married woodgods and river-gods.
The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955
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In case of the pediment there is a central point, just under the apex, where the dominant figures of the scene portrayed are placed; and on either side of this central figure or group, figure balances figure, until we come to the corners, which are occupied by reclining forms, dying warriors, or river-gods or spectators.
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But the river-gods, or "water-fathers," were real four-footed dragons identified with the dragon-kings of Chinese myth, but at the same time were strictly homologous with the Nâga Rajas or cobra-kings of India.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The same idea, which later takes the religious or philosophic form of the belief in the omnipresence of the deity, peopled the woods with dryads, the streams and springs with nymphs and river-gods, the seas with Nereids and Tritons.
Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner
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A few impersonations of nature, such as river-gods, lingered on in the paintings of the Roman catacombs.
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