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

ECATÉA, Exarusa, 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.