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Ancient

Hesiod

And Sea [Pontus] begat Nereus, the eldest of his children, who is true and lies not: and men call him the Old Man [235] because he is trusty and gentle and does not forget the laws of righteousness, but thinks just and kindly thoughts. And yet again he got great Thaumas and proud Phorcys, being mated with Earth, and fair-cheeked Ceto and Eurybia who has a heart of flint within her.

265–269

And Thaumas wedded Electra [266 Ἠλέκτρην] the daughter of deep-flowing Ocean, and she bore him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Aello （Storm-swift） and Ocypetes （Swift-flier） who on their swift wings keep pace with the blasts of the winds and the birds; for quick as time they dart along.

337–370

And Tethys bore to Ocean eddying rivers ... Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters¹ who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping—to this charge Zeus appointed them—Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra [249 Ἠλέκτρη], [350] and ...

780–381

Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift-footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea's wide back.

Plato

Theaetetus

155d

Socrates

Theodorus seems to be a pretty good guesser about your nature. For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy, and he who said that Iris was the child of Thaumas¹ made a good genealogy.

¹ Hes. Theog. 750 Iris is the messenger of heaven, and Plato interprets the name of her father as “Wonder” (θαῦμα).

Callimachus

Hymn IV: To Delos

67

the daughter ^a of Thaumas

^a Iris (Stat. Th. x. 1223).

Virgil

Aeneid

3 211–212

the Strophades, where dread Celaeno bides,

with other Harpies,

9.1–5

While thus in distant region moves the war,

down to bold Turnus Saturn's daughter sends

celestial Iris. In a sacred vale,

the seat of worship at his grandsire's tomb,

Pilumnus, Faunus' son, the hero mused.

And thus the wonder-child of Thaumas

Hyginus

Fabulae

Preface

From Thaumas and Electra came Iris and the Harpies, namely Celaeno, Ocypete, and Podarce.

14.18

Harpies, the daughters of Thaumas and Ozomene (named Aellopous, Celaeno, and Ocypete)

Ovid

Metamorphoses

4.479–480

Iris, the child of Thaumas, purifies

her limbs in sprinkled water.

12.303

Thaumas and Pisenor

and Mermerus fled with them.

Apollodorus

1.2.2

Now to the Titans were born offspring: to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia, Styx, Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis;

1.2.6

Now to Thaumas and Electra were born Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete;

Nonnus

Dionysiaca

26.358–362

He [Hydaspes] had the genuine Titan blood; for from the bed of primeval Thaumas his rosyarm consort Electra brought forth two children—from that bed came a river and a messenger of the heavenly ones. Iris quick as the wind and swiftly flowing Hydaspes,

Servius

On Aeneid 3.212

[212] harpyiaeque colunt aliae ergo et Celaeno harpyia. has Hesiodus dicit Thaumantis et Electrae filias. quas sicut dictum est quidam furias putant, cum furiarum mater secundum Hesiodum Terra, secundum Aeschylum Nox sit.

Modern

Smith

"Thaumas"

（*Qau/mas), a son of Pontus and Ge, and by the Oceanide Electra, the father of Iris and the Harpies. (Hes. Theog. 237, 265, &c. ; Callim. Hymn. in Del. 67 ; Ov. Met. 4.479, 14.845.) There is also mention of a Centaur Thaumas. (Ov. Met. 12.304.)

Grimal

Cic. De Nat. Deor. 3.51