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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 84 — THE SEVEN WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THEBES

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

The name of Onca belonged especially to the Theban worship of Pallas, and was said to have been of Phœnikian origin, introduced by Cadmos. There seems, however, to have been a town Onkæ in Bœotia, with which the name was doubtless connected.

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