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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| Triton, in Greek mythology |
| in Greek mythology, son of Poseidon. He was a creature of the sea, the upper half of his body being human, the lower fishlike. Later legends speak of many Tritons, sometimes described as riding over the sea on horses. Tritons characteristically blew trumpets of conch shells. |
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