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August goddess, when first she created fruit of the harvest;
Sacred fig is the name which mortal men have assigned it.
Whence Phytalus and his race have gotten honours immortal.
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- Commentary references to this page
(1):
- Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO DEMETER
- Cross-references to this page
(5):
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), DONA´RIA
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), VECTIGA´LIA TEMPLO´RUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), A´TTICA
- Smith's Bio, Phytalus
- Smith's Bio, Spercheius
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(3):
- LSJ, Δημήτηρ
- LSJ,
Π υ _θιο-νίκης - LSJ,
σ υ _κέα