Epidotes

In Greek mythology, Epidotes ("Epidôtês") was a divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius for the crime committed by Pausanias. [Paus. iii. 17. § 8. (cited by Schmitz)]

Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver," occurs also as an epithet of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta, [(Paus. viii. 9. § 1; Hesych. s. v. (cited by Schmitz)] and of Hypnos at Sicyon, who had a statue in the temple of Asclepius there, which represented him in the act of sending a lion to sleep, [Paus. ii. 10. § 3 (cited by Schmitz)] and lastly of the beneficent gods, to whom Antoninus built a sanctuary at Epidaurus. [Paus. ii. 27. § 7. (cited by Schmitz)]

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