Peirene
Πειρήνη
(Πειρήνη), a daughter of Ache lous, Oebalus or Asopus and Methone, became by Poseidon the mother of Leches and Cenchrias (Paus. 2.2.3; Diod. 4.74). She was regarded as the nymph of the well Peirene near Corinth. which was believed by some to have arisen out of the tears which she shed in her grief at the death of her son Cenchrias. (Paus. 2.3.5.)
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.