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Tychon

Tychon

(Τύχων).

1. A god of chance or accident. was, according to Strabo (ix. D. 408), worshipped at Athens. (Comp. Anthol. Palat. 9.334.)

Tychon

2. An obscene daemon, is mentioned as a companion of Aphrodite and Priapus, and seems to signify "the producer," or "the fructifier." (Etym. Magn. and Hesych. sub voce comp. Jacobs, ad Anthol. tom. viii. p. 12; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. 1235.) [L.S]

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