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Adrastea

Adrastea · f

The daughter of Jupiter and Necessity

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ā^drastēa — Lewis & Short

ā^drastēa or ā^drastīa, ae, f., = *)adra/steia.

I The daughter of Jupiter and Necessity (so called from an altar erected to her by Adrastus), the goddess who rewards men for their deeds, and who esp. punishes pride and arrogance: quod nec sinit Adrastea, Verg. Cir. 239: ineffugibilis, App. de Mund. p. 75; Amm. 14, 11.—

II A city of Mysia, later called Parium, Plin. 5, 32, 40, § 141; Just. 11, 6, 10.

In the wild

Adrastiam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.32.p1

Where it came from

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