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Neptunus en · PROPN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Neptune (“the god of the ocean and of earthquakes”).
   alt of Neptune
   • Attendants of Neptunus are Glaucus, Palaemon, the god of harbors (v. 823), Nereus and his daughters (the Nereides), and Phorcus, brother of Nereus (v. 240, 822-826). Of the Nereides, Thetis, Doto, Galatea, and others are mentioned (v. 825, ix. 102); their mother, Doris, is referred to in iii. 74. Cymothoe, too, and Triton appear in Neptunus’s train (i. 144), and help him in his work; […] 1923, Charles Knapp, “Other Deities”, in The Aeneid of Vergil: Books I–VI. Selections VII–XII, and XII […] (The Lake Classical Series), Chicago, Ill.; Atlanta, Ga.; New York, N.Y.: Scott, Foresman and Company, →OCLC, chapter E (The Mythology of Vergil), page 93:
   • From my hair I plucked a red flower which I had bought for the purpose, and tossed it onto the murky green water, for the day when I put myself again upon Neptunus’s broad waters. 1987, H[arry] Paul Jeffers, chapter XX, in gods & lovers, Stamford, Conn.: Knights Press, →ISBN, book 2 (The Pilgrim), page 150:
   • ‘Fair cousin,’ he said, going up to Fleur-de-Lys, ‘what is the subject of that piece of tapestry you are doing?’ ‘Fair cousin,’ replied Fleur-de-Lys in a resentful tone, ‘I have told you three times already. It’s Neptunus’s grotto.’ 1978, Victor Hugo, translated by John Sturrock, “Of the Danger of Entrusting Your Secret to a Goat”, in Notre-Dame of Paris (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2004, →ISBN, book 7, page 248: