Cabarnus

A mythical personage of the island of Paros, who revealed to Demeter the fact of her daughter having been carried off, and from whom the island of Paros was said to have been called Cabarnis.1 From Hesychius2 it would seem that, in Paros, Cabarnus was the name for any priest of Demeter.

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References

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Πάρος.
  2. s.v. Κάβαρνοι.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.