Arethusa - Arethusa

Japanese: アレトゥサ - あれとぅさ
Arethusa - Arethusa

…Although there is a story about “three buckets of cold sweat,” there is an even more dramatic story about cold sweat in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. When Arethusa, a maidservant of Artemis (Diana), was cornered by the water god of the Alpheus River (the main river of the Peloponnese), cold sweat turned into sky-blue droplets and flowed from her entire body, forming a spring in which she herself dissolved. [Ikezawa Yasuo]…

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Arethusa" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈冷汗三斗〉などというが,オウィディウス《転身物語》にはさらに著しい冷や汗の話がある。アルテミス(ディアナ)の侍女アレトゥサArethusaがアルペイオス川(ペロポネソスの主河)の水神に追いつめられたとき,冷や汗が空色の水滴となって全身から流れ出し,泉となって彼女自身もその中に溶けてしまったという。【池沢 康郎】。…

※「アレトゥサ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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