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, Borysthenis () may refer to two distinct individuals: * Borysthenes, one of the three

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that were daughters of

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. Her sisters were Apollonis and Cephisso. Eumelus, fr. 35 as cited from Tzetzes on

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, 23 * the

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Earth-and-Water goddess

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, who was called because she was the daughter of the god of the Borysthenēs river (now the

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river).

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