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Note 408 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI

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A name of Demeter, Persephone, and some other Chthonian goddesses. See Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, l. 286. It probably means merely “mistress.”

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