The temple usually called that of Ceres at Rome was in reality one of the three conjoined deities (Liv. iii. 55. […] The second class of legends will come under the three following heads. […] These may, we think, be divided into three classes : the Historic, the Philosophic, and the Theological. […] She also bore the three Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges140 , and the three Hundred-handed (έκαтόγχϵιρς), Cottos, Briareôs, and Gyes. […] Oceanos had by his sister Tethys all the rivers that flow on the earth, and the Ocean-nymphs, three thousand in number.