DEMETRIA

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DEMETRIA , a

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

festival in

honour

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

Demeter

DEMETER

, held at seed-

time

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

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

part

PART

in it lashed one another with whips of bark (oporrov), while the

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

Dionysia

DIONYSIA

also were called Demetria in

honour

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

of Demetrius Poliorcetes, upon whom divine honours were conferred by the Athenians.
Hesychius, s.v. ,u6porrov;

Pollux

POLLUX, JULIUS
POLLUX, or POLLUCITE

i. 37; Diod. Sic. v. 4;

Plutarch

PLUTARCH
PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

, Demetrius, 12 ; Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquites.

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