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486:princess as one of the 50 daughters of King
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463:Praxithea (or Phrasithea), daughter of
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1177:Set index articles on Greek mythology
772:13, vol. i, pp. 191 ff., ed. Dindorf
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1068:Description of Greece
1040:Marcus Tullius Cicero
781:Apollodorus, 2.4.10;
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63:Personified concepts
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745:Etymologicum Magnum
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1004:Diodorus Siculus,
994:. Twelve volumes.
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379:Diogeneia
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273:Praxithea
218:Potamides
208:Pegasides
148:Leimakids
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657:Plutarch
576:Plutarch
500:Heracles
492:Megamede
488:Thespius
484:Thespian
458:Demophon
454:Metanira
452:holding
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395:Pandorus
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344:Zeuxippe
223:Semystra
213:Pleiades
193:Oceanids
158:Limnades
108:Daphnaie
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764:10.53;
750:Scholia
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661:Theseus
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580:Theseus
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450:Demeter
411:Procris
407:Pandora
391:Cecrops
203:Pegaeae
188:Nereids
183:Nephele
178:Napaeae
143:Lampads
1172:Naiads
1089:3 vols
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708:Cicero
692:Aelian
641:Ehoiai
636:Hesiod
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608:4.29.2
572:2.25.6
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163:Meliae
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113:Dryads
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688:Heyne
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