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1 The aegis is the conventional buckler of Pallas. Probably the conservatism of religious art retained for the warrior goddess the goatskin buckler which was one of the earliest forms of human armor.
2 The ὀλολυγή (says Dr. Macan) was proper to the worship of Athena; a cry of triumph or exultation, perhaps of Eastern origin and connected with the Semitic Hallelu (which survives in Hallelu-jah).
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 702
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AEGIS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CORIA´RIUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CYRE´NE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MARMA´RICA
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- LSJ, Λίβυ^ς
- LSJ, Παλλάδιον
- LSJ, αἴγεος
- LSJ, αἰγίς
- LSJ, ἐρευθ-έδα^νον
- LSJ, ἱμάντ-ι^νος
- LSJ, κατηγορ-έω
- LSJ, μετονομ-άζω
- LSJ, ὀλολυ_γ-ή
- LSJ, πλήν
- LSJ, θύσα^νος
- LSJ, θυ^σαν-ωτός
- LSJ, σκυ?τ-ι^νος
- LSJ, συ-ζεύγνυ_μι
- LSJ, χρίω