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Telphusa
also: Τελφοῦσα, Telphousa
A spring and its resident water-nymph near Haliartus, personified and given speech in Hymn 3: she persuades Apollo to build his temple at Crisa instead of at her own site, then is punished by him with a landslide once he learns she meant to keep her own site free of his cult's traffic.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.134 Telphusa
A spring and its resident water-nymph near Haliartus, personified and given speech in Hymn 3: she persuades Apollo to build his temple at Crisa instead of at her own site, then is punished by him with a landslide once he learns she meant to keep her own site free of his cult's traffic.