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[185] ἀκάκητα, a title of Hermes recurring in H. only Od. 24.10. It appears to have been a local Arkadian name (see Paus.viii. 36. 10) connected with the worship of Zeus Lykaon. It is probably useless to seek for any etymological explanation of the word, though in later Greek it was referred to either “ἄκακος” or “ἀκεῖσθαι. ἀκάκης” as an epithet of Hades was probably a euphemism; but why Prometheus should be called “ἀκάκητα” in Hes. Theog. 614 it is hard to see.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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