Acidalia

"Restlessness." A surname of Aphrodite, after the spring Acidalius near Orchomenos in Boeotia, where she used to bathe with the Charites.

According to some, the name is connected with ἅκιδες (akides), i.e., cares or troubles.

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References

Sources

  • Hederich, Benjamin. (1770). Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon. Leipzig, p. 42-43.
  • Virgil. Aeneid i, 720, with Servius.