Ἑκάλειος Ζεύς [α^], from Ἑκάλη, a lady who entertained Theseus, and for this received at Athens the yearly honour of the Ἑκαλήσια [ἱερά]: hence the epith. was given to Zeus as worshipped on the same day, Plu.Thes.14.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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