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Po'lias

Πολιάς), i. e. "the goddess protecting the city," a surname of Athena at Athens, where she was especially worshipped as the protecting divinity of the acropolis. (Paus. 1.27. § I; Arnob. ad v. Gent. 6.193.)

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