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Adonis

also: Ἄδωνις, Ἄδωνιν

Aphrodite's beautiful young consort, killed by a boar and mourned annually by women in the Adonia festival. Sappho's dirge (fr. 140) and cry (fr. 168) are the earliest surviving Greek of that rite.

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Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia poem · 2 mentions

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