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The Nysiades or Nymphs of Mt. Nysa were, three, five, or six Oceanid-Nymphs of Mount Nysa.

Zeus entrusts them with the care of the infant demigod Dionysos, alongside the elderly satyr Silenus.

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  • Ambrosia
  • Arsinoe
  • Bromis
  • Cisseis
  • Coronis
  • Erato
  • Eriphia
  • Eudora
  • Nysa
  • Pedila
  • Phyto
  • Polyhymno
  • Polyxo
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