Nonnus identifies Peitho as the wife of Hermes, the messenger of the gods.Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 8.220 & 48.230. However, commentary on Euripides' Orestes notes that Peitho is the wife of Phoroneus, the primordial King of Argos, and the mother of Aegialeus, Apis, Europs and Niobe.Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 932 An alternative Argive tradition describes her instead as the wife of Argos, Phoroneus's grandson.Scholia ad Euripides, Phoenissae 1116 The Byzantine encyclopedic text, Suda, states that the mother of Iynx was either Peitho or Ekho.
Nonnus identifies Peitho as the wife of Hermes the messenger of the gods.Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 8.220 & 48230. However, commentary on Euripides' Orestes notes that Peitho i.s the wife of Phor,oneus, the primordial King of Argos, and the mother of Aegialeus, Apis, Europs and Niobe.Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 932 An alternative Argive tradition describes her instead as the wife of Argos, Phoroneus's grandson.Scholia ad Euripides, Phoenissae 1116 The Byzantine encyclopedic text, Suda, states that the mother of Iynx was either Peitho or Ekho.