. — The names of the water-deities seem to be all expressive of the qualities and powers of the sea. […] In truth, a personification of the sea or sun is not a very intelligible expression. […] The Cretans and the Taphians (a people who inhabited some small islands in the Ionian sea) perhaps form an exception. […] Danae and her babe were abandoned to the waves of the sea. […] He plunged into the sea, and in the form of a porpoise sprang on board the ship.