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Ζαγρεύς

*zagreus · ὁ

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What it meant — LSJ

son of Zeus and Persephone, slain by the Titans and resuscitated as Dionysus, πότνια γῆ, Ζαγρεῦ τε θεῶν πανυπέρτατε πάντων Alcmaeonis Fr. 3 (EGF p.77), cf. E. Fr. 472.11 (anap.), Call. Fr. 171, Nonn. D. 10.294; identified with Ἅιδης by A. Fr. 228. (Glossed by μεγάλως ἀγρεύων Et.Gud. 227.37.)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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