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Neleides, Neleiades

and NELEIUS (Νηλείδης, Νηληϊάδης, Νηλήϊος), patronymics of Neleus, by which either Nestor, the son of Neleus, or Antilochus, his grandson, is designated. (Hom. Il. 8.100, 11.617, 10.87, 23.514; Ov. Met. 12.553; Hdt. 5.65.)

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.