Plato, Cratylus, section 407c

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[407c] by calling her Ethonoe; and then he himself or others afterwards improved the name, as they thought, and called her Athenaa.

Hermogenes
And how do you explain Hephaestus?

Socrates
You ask about “the noble master of light”?

Hermogenes
To be sure.

Socrates
Hephaestus is Phaestus, with the eta added by attraction; anyone could see that, I should think.

Hermogenes
Very likely, unless some other explanation occurs to you, as it probably will.

Socrates
To prevent that, ask about Ares.

Hermogenes
I do ask.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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