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νυκτέλιος

nuktelios

nightly, nightly festivals, night-festival

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What it meant

νυκτέλιος · nyktelios — LSJ

nightly, nightly festivals

nightly, epith. of Dionysus, from his nightly festivals, AP 9.524.14, Plu. E apud Delph. 2.389a, Paus. 1.40.6.

2 night-festival, festival of

νυκτέλιον, τό, night-festival, Ἴσιδος POxy. 525 (ii A.D.): in pl., festival of Dionysus Νυκτέλιος, Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.291a.

Where it came from

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