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STEPHANOPHORUS

Volume 17 · 53 words · 1797 Edition

in antiquity, the chief priest of Pallas, who presided over the raft. It was usual for every god to have a chief priest; that of Pallas was the Stephanoporus just mentioned, and that of Hercules was called Dadouchus.—Stephanoporus was also a priest that assisted the women in the celebration of the festival Thesmophoria.