Lyaeus

"Deliverer from care." An epithet of Dionysus as the god who freed people from care and anxiety.

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References

Sources

  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 108.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Georgics, ii, 229.