Hecale

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Hĕcălē, ēs, f., = Ἑκάλη,

a poor old woman who kindly received Theseus , celebrated by Callimachus , Plin. 22, 22, 44, § 88; Ap. Met. 1, 23, 17; Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 50; Ov. R. Am. 747; cf. Petr. 135, 8, 16.

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