Nymphaeus (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 13, 2026 05:02 PM
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History
The Nymphaeus was a river of Latium. Pliny the Elder seems to be the only ancient author who mentions it, and he has it flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea somewhere between Astura and Circeii. The compilers of the Barrington Atlas show it flowing across the Pomptinus Ager. Nineteenth-century sources that include W. Smith, and perhaps whence the Barrington Atlas Directory, associate this river described by Pliny with a stream called "Ninfa" that is said to flow from near the Medieval site of Ninfa (close to Norma in Lazio) to the sea. It is unclear whether this waterway is now extant and observable in the landscape.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432988
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 C3 Nymphaeus fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ninfa
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Nymphaeus (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432988> [accessed: 13 February 2026]
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