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ATERGATIS

Volume 3 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

in Mythology, a goddess of the Syrians, supposed to be the mother of Semiramis. She was represented with the face and breasts of a woman, but the rest of her body resembled a fish. Vossius says the term signifies without fish, and conjectures that the votaries of this deity abstained from fish.