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Anaclethʹra

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The stone on which Cerēs rested after searching in vain for her daughter. It was kept as a sacred deposit in the Prytaneʹum of Athens.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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