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Edōni

Ἤδωνοι) or Edōnes (Ἤδωνες). A Thracian people, between the Nestus and the Strymon, celebrated for their orgiastic worship of Bacchus; whence Edonis in the Latin poets signifies a female Bacchanal, and Edonus is used as equivalent to Thracicus.

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