[9] Πολυδέκτͅη: so 404, 430 “Πολυδέγμων”. The idea of Hades as the “host of many” is especially Aeschylean: cf. Suppl. 157 “τὸν πολυξενώτατον Ζῆνα τῶν κεκμηκότων”: P. V. 152 “Ἅιδου τοῦ νεκροδέγμονος”: Theb.860“πανδόκον εἰς χέρσον”. See Preller-Robert i.^{2} p. 804. On the euphemistic names of Hades and Persephone see Rohde Psyche p. 192.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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