πότνιαι, Demeter and Persephone (Cora), who in Ar. Th. 1156 are called “Θεσμοφόρω πολυποτνία”. Cp. 683. τιθηνοῦνται, as the spiritual nurturers of their faithful votaries. Simonides, too, has this word in a fig. sense, fr. 150. 7 “εὖ δ᾽ ἐτιθηνεῖτο γλυκερὰν ὄπα Δωρίοις Ἀρίστων ι Ἀργεῖος” ("cultivated"). τέλη: Plat. Rep. 560E “τελουμένου ψυχὴν μεγάλοισι τέλεσι”: Eur. Hipp. 25 “σεμνῶν ἐς ὄψιν καὶ τέλη μυστηρίων”: Aesch. fr. 377 “μυστικοῦ τέλους”: in prose usu. “τελεταί”.
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