[2] Like Cydnus, now known as the Berdan River, Comaetho was from Cilicia, a region located in southern Asia Minor.
As she approached marriage age, the girl fell in love with the river-god Cydnus and pined for him until the goddess Aphrodite turned her into a spring, presumably in order to unite the two.
[4] The myth might have arisen as a geographical, aetiological narrative in order to describe a spring near Glaphyrae, a town in Cilicia, and thus could be traced back to Parthenius's own Metamorphoses work.
[7] The story of Comaetho has been compared to that of the river-god Alpheus and the nymph Arethusa, owing to their shared theme of contrast of the water and the fire of love.
[4] It also bears similarities with another fragmentary text by Parthenius regarding the story of Byblis; both myths feature maidens sufffering from their incestuous passions, if Cydnus is taken to be Comaetho's father.