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Who is She that Kindles the Fire (hypekkaustria)1 among the people of Soli?
This is the name which they give to the priestess of
Athena because she performs certain sacrifices and
ceremonies to avert evil.
1 W. R. Halliday, in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, xxxvi. 165-177, suggests that ‘cohen’ (= priest) may be contained in this word.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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