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Acheloos

'My suitor was the river Achelóüs,
who took three forms to ask me of my father:
a rambling bull once, then a writhing snake
of gleaming colors, then again a man
with ox-like face: and from his beard's dark shadows
stream upon stream of water tumbled down.
Such was my suitor.' ( , , . Acheloos, a river god, son of Oceanus and Thetys (one of their 3000 children).. Herakles wins and marries Dianeira

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