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Euaster; he who cries euoi!
An epithet of Dionysus. From the ecstatic cry euoi! In the Epigrams: "these things of the open country Arcadian Biton, when an old man, dedicated to Pan and to Lyaeus who cries euoi!, that is to Lyaeus and the Nymphs."
Εὐαστήρ· ἐπίθετον Διονύσου. παρὰ τὸ εὐοῖ ἐνθουσιαστικόν. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ἀγρονόμων τάδε Πανὶ καὶ εὐαστῆρι Λυαίῳ, τουτέστι Λυαίῳ, πρέσβυς καὶ Νύμφαις Ἀρκὰς ἔθηκε Βίτων.
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