αι142Αἴθων
blazing
[Referring to] violent hunger. [So called] from a certain Aithon son of Helios; [it was he] who chopped down Demeter's sacred grove and suffered due punishment and for this was was ever famished.
Αἴθων· ὁ βίαιος λιμός. ἀπὸ Αἴθωνος Ἡλίου τινός· ὃς τὸ Δήμητρος ἄλσος κατέκοψε καὶ τιμωρίαν ὑπέστη ἀξίαν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐλίμωττεν ἀεί.
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