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DEMETRIA , a See also:

Greek festival in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

DEMETER

Demeter, held at See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed-See also:

time, and lasting ten days. Nothing is known of it beyond the fact that the men who took See also:

PART

part in it lashed one another with whips of bark (µoporrov), while the See also:

WOMEN

women made obscene jests. It is even doubtful whether it was a particular festival at all or only another name for the Eleusinia or Thesmophoria. The See also:

DIONYSIA

Dionysia also were called Demetria in honour of See also:

DEMETRIUS

Demetrius Poliorcetes, upon whom divine honours were conferred by the Athenians. See also:

HESYCHIUS

Hesychius, s.v. ,u6porrov; See also:

Pollux i. 37; Diod. Sic. v. 4; See also:

Plutarch, Demetrius, 12 ; Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire See also:

des antiquites.

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