And Thaumas wedded Electra [266 Ἠλέκτρην] the daughter of deep-flowing Ocean, and she bore him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Aello （Storm-swift） and Ocypetes （Swift-flier） who on their swift wings keep pace with the blasts of the winds and the birds; for quick as time they dart along.
And Tethys bore to Ocean eddying rivers ... Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters1 who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping—to this charge Zeus appointed them—Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra [249 Ἠλέκτρη], [350] and ...
[Persephone:] All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leucippe and Phaeno and Electra [418 Ἠλέκτρη] and Ianthe, Melita also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe [420] and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe, fair as a flower, Chryseis, Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura
Now to the Titans were born offspring: to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia, Styx, Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis;
He [Hydaspes] had the genuine Titan blood; for from the bed of primeval Thaumas his rosyarm consort Electra brought forth two children—from that bed came a river and a messenger of the heavenly ones. Iris quick as the wind and swiftly flowing Hydaspes,
[212] harpyiaeque colunt aliae ergo et Celaeno harpyia. has Hesiodus dicit Thaumantis et Electrae filias. quas sicut dictum est quidam furias putant, cum furiarum mater secundum Hesiodum Terra, secundum Aeschylum Nox sit.
1. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and the wife of Thaumas, by whom she became the mother of Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 419; Hes. Th. 266; Apollod. 1.2. §§ 2, 6; Paus. 4.33.6 ; Serv. ad Aen. 3.212.)
