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Hyperchei'ria

*(Uperxeipi/a,) the goddess who holds her protecting hand over a thing, a surname under which Hera had a sanctuary at Sparta, which had been erected to her at the command of an oracle, when the country was inundated by the river Eurotas. (Paus. 3.13.6.)

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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.13.6
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