Speio and her other sisters appear toThetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief ofAchilles at the slaying of his friendPatroclus.[5]
In some accounts, Spio, together with her sistersCymodoce,Nesaea andThalia, was one of the nymphs in the train ofCyrene.[6] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis,Melite andPanopea, were able to help the heroAeneas and his crew during a storm.[7]
^Virgil,Georgics 4.338 "But his mother heard the cry from her bower beneath the river's depths. About her the Nymphs were spinning fleeces of Miletus, dyed with rich glassy hue – Drymo and Xantho, Ligea and Phyllodoce, their shining tresses floating over snowy necks; Nesaea and Spio, Thalia and Cymodoce [four Nereids];"
