While these works were proceeding, he did not entirely abandon painting, but executed in tempera a picture of Our Lady for the high altar of S. Pancrazio, with St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist, the brothers St nereus, Achilleus, and Prancrazius, and other saints hard by.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari
As we row past in this ambrosial weather, the oarsmen keeping time and ploughing furrows in the fruitless fields of nereus, it is not difficult to hear the siren voices-for earth and heaven and sea make melodies far above mortal singing.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
It is like a daughter of nereus following the line of the as the waves as they rise into crests and dip again into watery valleys.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers