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AKONTION (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLIS
Acontes or Acontius (Akontes or Akontios), a son of Lycaon, from whom the town of Acontium in Arcadia derived its name. (Apollod. iii. 8.1; Steph. Byz. s. v. Akontion.)
MEGALOPOLIS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Agetor, a surname given to several gods, for instance:
to Zeus at Lacedaemon (Stob. Serm. 42). The name seems to describe Zeus as the
leader and ruler of men; but others think, that it is synonymous with Agamemnon,
to Apollo (Eurip. Med. 426) where however Elmsley and others prefer haletor,
to Hermes, who conducts the souls of men to the lower world. Under this name Hermes
had a statue at Megalopolis (Paus. viii. 34).
Epopsius (Epopsios), that is, the superintendent, occurs as a surname of several gods, such as Zeus (Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1124), Apollo (Hesych. s. v. ; comp. Soph. Philoct. 1040), and of Poseidon at Megalopolis. (Paus. viii. 30.1)
Maniae (Maniai), certain mysterious divinities, who had a sanctuary in the neighbourhood of Megalopolis, in Arcadia, and whom Pausanias (viii. 34. 1) considered to be the same as the Eumenides.
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