Προμυλαία

Promylaia, Promylaea

Translated by David Whitehead18 Apr 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

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A goddess presiding over milling, whom they used to worship in mills, like Eunostos.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προμυλαία· θεὸς προμύλιος, ἣν ἀφιδρύοντο ἐν τοῖς μυλῶσιν, ὡς Εὔνοστον.

Betacode

*promulai/a: qeo\s promu/lios, h(\n a)fidru/onto e)n toi=s mulw=sin, w(s *eu)/noston.

= Photius pi1265 Theodoridis (taken to come from Pausanias the Atticist), and cf. Pollux 7.180 and Hesychius pi3592.
For Eunostos see under nu 501.

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