AIORA


Meaning of AIORA in English

/euh yawr"euh, euh yohr"euh/ , n. ( sometimes used with a pl. v. )

a festival of ancient Attica at which dolls were swung from trees to commemorate Erigone's suicide by hanging.

[ Aióra lit., swing (n.), akin to aeírein to lift, aeíresthai to hang, be suspended ]

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