Cymodoce and her other sisters appeared to
Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of
Achilles for his slain friend
Patroclus.[5] She is also said to be a companion of
Aphrodite.[citation needed]
In some accounts, Cymodoce, together with her sisters
Thalia,
Nesaea and
Spio, is one of the nymphs in the train of
Cyrene[6] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis,
Melite and
Panopea, were able to help the hero
Aeneas and his crew during a storm.[7]
According to Virgil, when Aeneas landed in Italy, a local warlord named
Turnus set his pine-framed ships ablaze. Upon seeing that, the goddess
Cybele, remembering that those hulls had been crafted from trees felled on her holy mountains, transformed the vessels into sea nymphs. Cymodoce was one of those newly created nymphs.[8]