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Pots
A festival at Athens; on a single day both the Pitchers and the Pots used to be held; in it they would boil every [kind of] seed in a pot and sacrifice it to Dionysus and to Hermes. Theopompus says that those who had…
Χύτροι· ἑορτὴ Ἀθήνησιν· ἐν μιᾷ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἤγοντο οἵ τε Χύτροι καὶ οἱ Χόες· ἐν ᾧ πᾶν σπέρμα εἰς χύτραν ἑψήσαντες ἔθυον Διονύσῳ καὶ Ἑρμῇ. Θεόπομπός φησι τοὺς διασωθέντας ἐκ τοῦ…
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