Ἐλέου βωμός

Pity's altar

Translated by David Whitehead1 Dec 2002Vetting: high4 revisions

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Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐλέου βωμός.

Betacode

*)ele/ou bwmo/s.

Mentioned in the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 260. This is the most explicit evidence for a cult of personified Pity at Athens, but cf. also Timocles fr. 31 Kock (now 33 K.-A.) for P. as 'kindly god'; and for something similar in Epidaurus see LSJ s.v. e)/leos.