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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EROCAN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with AGYIEUS (5)
These were in the antient Amonian language; and said to have been introduced by [544]Pagasus, Agyieus, and Olen.
According to a Doric hymn of Bœo, a poetess of Delphi, quoted by Pausanias,(1150) Pagasus, and the godlike Agyieus, the sons of the Hyperboreans, founded the celebrated oracle at Delphi.
The simple Cippus of Apollo Agyieus did not represent any particular attribute, but was merely intended as a memorial of the presence of the protecting god.(1489) In endeavouring more fully to express his character, the symbols of power would naturally come next.
The Agyieus often occurs on coins, instead of other emblems of Apollo, where numismatic writers have not recognised the symbol.
Hence the fetishistic power of the altar was fully recognized in Greek ritual, and hence also in the cult of Apollo Agyieus the god and the altar are called by the same name.