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Cranaea

*Kranai=a), a surname of Artemis, derived from a temple on a hill near Elateia in Phocis, in which the office of priest was always held by youths below the age of puberty, and for the space of five years by each youth. (Paus. 10.34.4.)

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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.34.4
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