In a poem by the Greek poet

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(5th-century BC), Angelia (

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: Ἀγγελία ('Message') is mentioned as a daughter of the Greek messenger-god

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, where she is understood as "message" personified.

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s.v. ἀγγελία
Race'
note 11 to Pindar Olympian 8.82
Svarlien'
note 3 to Pindar Olympian 8.82

, ''Olympian'
8.80–84

Notes

References

* Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott. ''

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'', revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie,

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Oxford, 1940
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, ''Odes'', Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990
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, ''Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes''. Edited and translated by William H. Race.

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