Eumolpus

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Εὔμολπος, ὁ.

Descendants of Eumolpus: Εὐμολπίδαι, οἱ.

Eumolpus: i, m., = Εὔμολπος,
I a fabulous Thracian singer and priest of Ceres, who brought the Eleusinian mysteries and the culture of the vine to Attica, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 199.—His descendant of the same name, the son of Musaeus, Ov. M. 11, 93.—A sacerdotal family in Athens also bore, after him, the name Eumolpĭdae, ārum, m., Εὐμολπίδαι, Cic. Leg. 2, 14, 35; Nep. Alc. 4 al.

Eumolpus,¹⁰ ī, m. (Εὔμολπος), Eumolpe [apporta en Attique les mystères d’Éleusis et la culture de la vigne]: Plin. 7, 199 ; Ov. M. 11, 93