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Eumolpus

Eumolpus · m

a fabulous Thracian singer and priest of Ceres

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Satyricon 63 · 20.71/10k
Ex Ponto 4 · 1.93/10k
Letters 6 · 0.93/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Eumolpus — Lewis & Short

Eumolpus, i, m., = *eu)/molpos,

I a fabulous Thracian singer and priest of Ceres, who brought the Eleusinian mysteries and the culture of the vine to Attica, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 199.—His descendant of the same name, the son of Musaeus, Ov. M. 11, 93.—A sacerdotal family in Athens also bore, after him, the name Eumolpĭdae, ārum, m., *eu)molpi/dai, Cic. Leg. 2, 14, 35; Nep. Alc. 4 al.

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