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    (trees) Hamadryades or Hadryades Daphnaeae (laurel tree) Epimeliades or Epimelides (apple tree; also protected flocks) other name variants include Meliades...
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    Dryad (section Epimelides)
    nymphs. These were nymphs of the laurel trees. The Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides were nymphs of apple and other fruit trees and the protectors of sheep...
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  • In Greek mythology, the Epimeliads, Epimelides, Meliades, or Maliades (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιμηλιάδες, Ἐπιμηλίδες, Μηλιάδες, Μαλιάδες) are dryad nymphs that...
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    Trees Nymphs Some shepherds claimed they could dance better than the Epimelides nymphs. They got into a dancing contest, not realizing they were competing...
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  • Despoina Dia Dindymene Dione Doris Dryad Atlanteia Dryope Epimeliad (Epimēlides) Erato (dryad) Eurydice Hamadryad Aigeiros Ampelos Balanos (Balanus) Chrysopeleia...
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    Pleiades — Al Thurayya. In fact, Pleione may have been numbered amongst the Epimelides (nymphs of meadows and pastures) and presided over the multiplication...
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    group of Messapian shepherds declared themselves better dancers than the Epimelides nymphs (the nymphs that tend to the flocks), not realizing they were goddesses...
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  • native country, by Epaminondas; and received the name of Coroneia because Epimelides, who founded the new town, was a native of Coroneia, in Boeotia. This...
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