Alseid

In Greek mythology, Alseids (/ælˈsiːɪdz/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλσηΐδες, romanized: Alsēḯdes) were nymphs who inhabited groves.^[1]

They are mentioned by Apollonius of Rhodes,^[2] who relates that the woman Cleite hangs herself after the death of her husband, Cyzicus, who was killed by the hero Jason.^[3] Upon her suicide:^[4]

Even the woodland nymphs themselves lamented her death, and from all the tears they shed for her from their eyes to the ground, the goddesses made a spring, which they call Cleite, the famous name of the unfortunate bride.

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia)^[5] states explicitly that "Alseids" is the name given to nymphs who occupy groves.^[6]