Enipeus

• A river in Thessaly that flows into the Penēus, Verg. G. 4, 368; Luc. 7, 116; as a river-god, the lover of Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus, and by her the father of Pelias and Neleus, Prop. 1, 13, 21; 3, 19, 13 (4, 18, 13 M.); Ov. M. 6, 116; Hyg. Fab. 157: voc. Enīpeu, Ov. M. 7, 229.—
• II A river in Pieria, Liv. 44, 8, 2; 44, 20, 3.—
• III A Roman youth, Hor. C. 3, 7, 23.

(Ἐνιπεύς), a river-god in Thessaly, who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus. Poseidon, who was in love with her, assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus visited her, and she became by him the mother of twins, Pelias and Neleus. (Apollod. 1.9.8.) Ovid (Ov. Met. 6.116) relates that Poseidon, having assumed the form of Enipeus, begot by Iphimedeia two sons, Otus and Ephialtes. Another river-god of the same name occurs in Elis, who is likewise connected with the legend about Tyro. (Strab. viii. p.356.) [L.S]

ENI´PEUS a river of the Macedonian Pieria,which is described by Livy (Liv. 44.8) as descending from a valley of Olympus, and as enclosed between high and precipitous banks, containing little water in summer, but full of quicksands and whirlpools in wintry weather. In B.C. 169, Perseus placed his, army at a distance of 5 M. P. from Dium, behind the Enipeus, and occupied the line of the river. The description of the historian, and its distance from Dium, correspond to the river of Litokhóro, which has its origin in the highest parts of the woody steeps of Olympus, and flows in a wide bed between precipitous banks, which gradually diminish in height to the sea. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 406, 420.)

ENI´PEUS (Ἐνίπευς.

sometimes Ἐνισεύς).

Strab. 8. p. 356; Eustath. ad Od. 11.328: Fersalíti, one of the principal rivers of Thessaly, rises in Mount Othrys, and after flowing through the plain of Pharsalus, flows into the Peneus. Its chief tributary was the Apidanus, which rises at the foot of the mountains of Phthia, probably at the springs of Vrysiá. The Apidanus is sometimes represented as the principal of the two rivers, and its name given to the united stream flowing into the Peneus. Herodotus relates that the Apidanus was the only river in Achaea, of which the waters were not drunk up by the army of Xerxes. (Strab. 9. p. 432, comp. 8. p. 356; Eurip. Hec. 451; Hdt. 7.196; Apollon. 1.35.) The Enipeus is a rapid river, and is therefore called by Ovid irrequietus Enipeus( Met. 1.579), an epithet which, as Leake remarks, is more correct than Lucan's description (6.374):-- it gurgite raptoApidanus; nunquamque celer, nisi mixtus, Enipeus.

The Cuarius flowed into the Enipeus after its junction with the Apidanus. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 320, 330.) Respecting the river god Enipeus, see Dict. of Biogr. and Myth. s. v.

A river of Elis in the Pisatis, called Barnichius in the time of Strabo, flowed into the Alpheius at no great distance from its mouth. Near the sources of this river stood Salmone. (Strab. 8. p. 356.) [SALMONE]

(Ἐνιπεύς). (1) A river in Thessaly, rising in Mount Othrys, receiving the Apidanus, near Pharsalus, and flowing into the Peneus (Ovid, Met. i. 579). Poseidon assumed the form of the god of this river in order to obtain possession of Tyro, who was in love with Enipeus. She became by Poseidon the mother of Pelias and Neleus.

(2) A small river in Pisatis (Elis) flowing into the Alpheus.

• Hdt. 7.129
• loved by Tyro: Apollod. 1.9.5