[847] Κούρην: i.e. 'Daughter' of Demeter, the name under which Persephone was worshipped in Attica; cf. Hdt. 8. 65, τῇ Μητρὶ καὶ τῇ Κούρῃ. The variant Δαῖραν, which may have come from the earlier recension, was a title of Demeter used especially in connexion with the Eleusinian Mysteries (cf. Lyc. 710). Some explain it as 'the knowing one,' others as 'the torch-bearer.' de M. would read κούρην, and refer it to Hecate herself, the only-begotten daughter of Perses (cf. 1035).
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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