Search results for epsilon,795 in Adler number:
Headword: *)ele/oubwmo/s Adler number: epsilon,795 Translated headword: Pity's altar Vetting Status: high Translation:
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Greek Original:
*)ele/ou bwmo/s.
Note:
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.
