In the end, Nereus attempts to turn Luke over to the Ssi-ruuk in exchange for their retreat, but though the kidnapping succeeds, Luke manages to fight them off and escape.

The old Roman lists of the 5th century, which passed over into the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, contain the names of the two martyrs Nereus and Achilleus, whose grave was in the Catacomb of Domitilla on the Via Ardeatina.

Pearson Canada, an educational book publishing company, took over the award in 1999, and Nereus Financial, a stock brokerage, became the sponsor from 2006 to 2008.

Pearson Canada, an educational book publishing company, took over the award in 1999, and Nereus Financial, a stock brokerage, became the sponsor from 2006 to 2008.

In a late appearance, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climacteric battle of Issus ( 333 BC ), and resorted to prayers, " calling on Thetis, Nereus and the Nereids, nymphs of the sea, and invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves.

Nereus later tricked General Landry into aiding the Ori by claiming that they should throw all their firepower at an Ori beachhead in the Milky Way.

Polychaetes occur throughout the Earth's oceans at all depths, from forms that live as plankton near the surface, to a 2 – 3 cm specimen ( still unclassified ) observed by the robot ocean probe Nereus at the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the Earth's oceans.

In the USA, cutting edge work is done at several public and private oceanographic institutions, including the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ( MBARI ), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI ) ( with Nereus ), and the University of Rhode Island / Institute for Exploration ( URI / IFE ).

In the fourth and following centuries a special votive Mass was celebrated on 12 May at the grave of Saints Nereus and Achilleus on the Via Ardeatina.

* Nereus ( underwater tidal turbine ), built by marine renewable power company Atlantis, installed at Newhaven, Victoria, Australia

After obtaining national recognition, Nereus finally made its mark on the international rowing scene by winning at Hamburg in 1891 and by winning the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1895.

At the bottom of the Challenger deep, the Nereus probe spotted one polychaete worm ( a multi-legged predator ) about an inch long.

On 31 May 2009 the United States sent the Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle ( HROV ) to the Challenger Deep.

On 1 June 2009 sonar mapping of the Challenger Deep by the Simrad EM120 sonar multibeam bathymetry system for deep water ( 300 – 11, 000 m ) mapping aboard the RV Kilo Moana ( mothership of the Nereus vehicle ), has indicated a spot with a depth of.

More recent work on the analysis of the radar data gives a much more detailed shape for Nereus as well as a fairly detailed terrain map of the surface.

The joint Rebel-Imperial force turns back the Ssi-ruuk, and during the chaos, Bakuran resistance cells overthrow Nereus ; in his absence, Bakura decides to join the Rebel Alliance.

The author of this legend places the two saints quite differently from the poem of Pope Damasus: as Nereus and Achilleus were buried in a very ancient part of the catacomb of Domitilla, built as far back as the beginning of the 2nd century, we may conclude that they are among the most ancient martyrs of the Roman Church, and stand in very near relation to the Flavian family, of which Domitilla, the foundress of the catacomb, was a member.

Nereus has a generally ellipsoidal shape with dimensions of 510 x 330 x 241 m. On the ends of its longest axis, one end appears narrower and rounder than the other, larger end, making it more of an egg shape.

Nereus rotates about an axis roughly perpendicular to its longest axis much like an egg spinning on a table.

After Nereus dropped its sponsorship, the award had no corporate sponsor until 2011, when philanthropist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Hilary Weston was announced as the award's new sponsor.

Within a short period of time, Nereus started proving itself by achieving big successes and winning its first event in 1888 followed by a winning streak of four Varsity victories 1891 – 1894.

Changes in Dutch society in the 1970s and decreasing membership levels caused Nereus to welcome non-Corps members as well as merging with its female counterpart Thetis.

Nereus will celebrate its 25th lustrum on its 125th Dies Natalis on December 11, 2010.

Nereus, unlike Kaikō, did not need to be powered or controlled by a cable connected to a ship on the ocean surface.

The Attic vase-painters showed the draped torso of Nereus issuing from a long coiling scaly fishlike tail.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

Psamathe ( Greek: Ψάμαθη, from ψάμαθος " sand ") was a Nereid in Greek mythology, i. e., one of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris.

* A relation to the Greek god Nereus, which may be from * snau -, " to give milk to ", in the sense of " flow " ( Partridge, Origins ( 1983 )).

from, say, the relatively nearby 4660 Nereus ( in delta-v terms ), process the ore using solar heating and CO, and eventually return with a load of almost pure metal.

* Nereus ( underwater vehicle ), a hybrid autonomous underwater vehicle / remotely operated vehicle from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI )

In Greek mythology, Nereus ( Νηρεύς ) was the eldest son of Pontus ( the Sea ) and Gaia ( the Earth ), a Titan who with Doris fathered the Nereids, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea.

The earliest poet to link Nereus with the labours of Heracles was Pherekydes, according to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes.

In Aelian's natural history, written in the early third century CE, Nereus was also the father of a watery consort of Aphrodite named Nerites who was transformed into " a shellfish with a spiral shell, small in size but of surpassing beauty.

When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris ( Hesiod, Theogony ), and a granddaughter of Tethys with whom she sometimes shares characteristics.

St Caius is portrayed in art wearing the Papal Tiara with Saint Nereus.

The Liber Pontificalis credits John with making repairs to the cemetery of the martyrs Nereus and Achilleus on the Via Ardeatina, that of Saints Felix and Adauctus, and the cemetery of Priscilla.

Classical scholar Karl Kerenyi conflated Phorcys with the similar sea gods Nereus and Proteus.

The Heidelberg Painter is the first Attic painter to show him with the Erymanthian boar, with Nereus, with Busiris and in the garden of the Hesperides.

According to these legends, Nereus and Achilleus were eunuchs and Chamberlains of Flavia Domitilla, a niece of the Emperor Domitian ; with the Christian virgin, they had been banished to the island of Ponza ( Pontia ), and later on beheaded in Terracina.

In the Epistle to the Romans, St. Paul mentions a Nereus with his sister, to whom he sends greetings (); perhaps even the martyr was a descendant of this disciple of the Apostle of the Gentiles.

From 1595 ( 25 years after Pope Pius V promulgated the Tridentine Missal ) until 1969, Saint Pancras was venerated together with Saints Nereus and Achilleus and Saint Domitilla in a shared feastday and Mass formula on 12 May.

In medieval iconography, Pancras was depicted as a young soldier, due to his association with the paired soldier saints Nereus and Achilleus.

Still others, such as the Adams Atomic Engine ( using nitrogen ), the Romawa Nereus ( using helium ), and General Atomics GT-MHR ( using helium ) have favored simplification of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor concept as much as possible, down to practically a reactor and a gas turbine linked together with the reactor using a right-sized, inherently safe core with no water used in the plant design.