Chapter Numbers to Nysê, Doto, and Nerine of N by Brewer's Readers Handbook

the interference of Proserpine, who first envelopes the combatants in a thick smoke, which compels them to desist; and then gives them a draught “to assuage their thirst.” The draught was from the river Lethê; and immediately the combatants had tasted it, they forgot not only the cause of the quarrel, but even that they had quarrelled at all.—Drayton: Nymphidia (1593).

Nysa, daughter of Sileno and Mysis, and sister of Daphnê. Justice Midas is in love with her; but she loves Apollo, her father’s guest.—Kane O’Hara: Midas (1764).

Nysê, Doto, and Nerine, the three nereids who went before the fleet of Vasco de Gama. When the treacherous pilot steered the ship of Vasco towards a sunken rock, these three sea-nymphs lifted up the prow and turned it round.—Camoëns: Lusiad, ii. (1569).