λαμπαδοδρομία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λαμπάς (lampás) +‎ δρόμος (drómos) +‎ -ία (-ía).

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Noun

λαμπαδοδρομίᾱ • (lampadodromíāf (genitive λαμπαδοδρομίᾱς); second declension

  1. torch-race, a ceremony in Athens in which runners carried lighted torches from the altar of the gods Hephaestus, Prometheus, and Athena in the Cerameicus to the Acropolis

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