in antiquity, an oath wherein Castor was invoked. It was a custom for the men never to swear by Caius, nor the women by Pollux.

ECATHEA, ἐκάθεα, in antiquity, statues erected to the goddess Hecate, for whom the Athenians had a great veneration, believing that she was the overseer of their families, and that she protected their children.