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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Hephaestus.

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Examples

  • So he called Hephaistos, the lord of fire, and he said, "Make ready a gift which all the undying gods shall give to the race of men.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • This doesn't bother me, and certainly most readers have encountered spellings like "Hephaistos" and "daimon."

    Want Some Latin with Your Greek? Gregory Feeley 2005

  • This doesn't bother me, and certainly most readers have encountered spellings like "Hephaistos" and "daimon."

    Archive 2005-05-01 Gregory Feeley 2005

  • After Proteus, they told me, Rhampsinitos received in succession the kingdom, who left as a memorial of himself that gateway to the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • "Hephaistos," the name dear to moderns, could have found no place in

    Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • Hephaistos which is turned towards the West, and in front of the gateway he set up two statues, in height five-and-twenty cubits, of which the one which stands on the North side is called by the Egyptians Summer and the one on the South side Winter; and to that one which they call Summer they do reverence and make offerings, while to the other which is called

    An Account of Egypt 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • Hephaistos which is turned towards the North Wind, and dug a lake, about which I shall set forth afterwards how many furlongs of circuit it has, and in it built pyramids of the size which I shall mention at the same time when I speak of the lake itself.

    An Account of Egypt 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • After Proteus, they told me, Rhampsinitos received in succession the kingdom, who left as a memorial of himself that gateway to the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the West, and in front of the gateway he set up two statues, in height five-and-twenty cubits, of which the one which stands on the North side is called by the Egyptians

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • As for the other kings, they could tell me of no great works which had been produced by them, and they said that they had no renown [85] except only the last of them, Moris: he (they said) produced as a memorial of himself the gateway of the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the North

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • (they said) produced as a memorial of himself the gateway of the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the North Wind, and dug a lake, about which I shall set forth afterwards how many furlongs of circuit it has, and in it built pyramids of the size which I shall mention at the same time when I speak of the lake itself.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

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