Eleionomae

Eleionomai (Greek Ἐλειονόμαι ) are the literal sense "swamp dwellers " (from ἕλειος " swampy " and νομός "residence", " land "). In the " Argonautica " of Apollonius of Rhodes is casually at two points of the speech sumpfbewohnenden nymphs. In addition, they are called in a scholium to Iliad. That was the basis for modern mythographers to provide Eleionomai as nymphs of the swamps and marshes equal the Naiads, Nereids and Oceanids to the side, which is incorrect in about the concept Naiad is specific to nymphs, while Eleionomai generally swamp dwellers, including called human inhabitants of a swampy area. As a Latinized form Eleionomae was specified.