Plutarch, Theseus, chapter 18

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γενομένου δὲ τοῦ κλήρου παραλαβὼν τοὺς λαχόντας ὁ Θησεὺς ἐκ τοῦ πρυτανείου, καὶ παρελθὼν εἰς Δελφίνιον, ἔθηκεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τὴν ἱκετηρίαν. ἦν δὲ κλάδος ἀπὸ τῆς ἱερᾶς ἐλαίας, ἐρίῳ λευκῷ κατεστεμμένος. εὐξάμενος δὲ κατέβαινεν ἕκτῃ μηνὸς ἐπὶ θάλασσαν ἱσταμένου Μουνυχιῶνος, ᾗ καὶ νῦν ἔτι τὰς κόρας πέμπουσιν ἱλασομένας εἰς Δελφίνιον. [2] λέγεται δὲ αὐτῷ τὸν μὲν ἐν Δελφοῖς ἀνελεῖν θεὸν Ἀφροδίτην καθηγεμόνα ποιεῖσθαι καὶ παρακαλεῖν συνέμπορον, θύοντι δὲ πρὸς θαλάσσῃ τὴν αἶγα θήλειαν οὖσαν αὐτομάτως τράγον γενέσθαι: διὸ καὶ καλεῖσθαι τὴν θεὸν Ἐπιτραγίαν.

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 1-150
Cross-references to this page (5):
- Harper's, Delphinia
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), DELPHI´NIA
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), VITTA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ATHE´NAE
- Smith's Bio, Dae'dalus
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
- LSJ, ἐπιτρα^γ-ία
- LSJ, καθηγεμ-ών
- LSJ, κατα-στέφω

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