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CARPO'PHORI

(Group Καρποφόροι), the fruit-bearers, a surname of Demeter and Cora, under which they were worshipped at Tegea. (Paus. 8.53.3.) Demeter Carpophoros appears to have been worshipped in Paros also. (Ross, Reisen auf den Griech. Inseln, i. p. 49.)

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