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Hyrmine

Ὑρμίνη

(Ὑρμίνη), a daughter of Neleus, or Nycteus, or, according to others, of Epeius and Anaxiroe. She was the wife of Phorbas, and the mother of Augeas and Actor. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.173; Paus. 5.1.4; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303.) The Argonaut Tiphys is likewise called a son of Phorbas and Hyrmine. (Hyg. Fab. 14.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.