||Nymphs of the THE LADONIDES were the Naiad Nymphs of the
Arcadian River Ladon (in southern Greece). They transformed
their sister Syrinx into a stand of marsh reeds to escape the
god Pan. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1. 689 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman
epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "The Nympha [Syrinx] fled [from
the amorous pursuit of Pan] through the wilderness and came at
last to Ladon's peaceful sandy stream, and there, her flight
barred by the river, begged her Watery Sisters (sorores
liquidae) to change her; and, when Pan thought he had captured
her, he held instead only the tall marsh reeds." - Ovid,
Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD