The-mythology-of-ancient-greece-and-italy-thomas-keightley

ADDITIONS.
The following remarks and suggestions have occurred to me, in the
course of study, since the publication of the present Edition of this
work : I have printed them separately, with the intention of inserting
them in the remaining copies.
T. K.
BinfieM, Berks, Not. 12th, 1843.
Page 136.—Neither of the derivations given of the name Artemis
appears to be satisfactory. The following may seem perhaps to
come nearer to the truth. Artemis is quasi Althemis or Aldemis or
Ardemis, from aX0w"AAAQ (aXSaiVw), to nourish or cause to grow, or
apcui, to water and thence to nourish. This perfectly unforced ety
mology accurately accords with the moon, whose influence on vege
tation and growth in general the ancients held to be so very consi
derable (see p. 194, note b), and which they regarded as the mother
of dews (p. 61). Another name of the goddess may have been
7j aXdeovffu, (Wceovcra or apSiovaa, and 6 and being commutable
(as 8ijp, Qrjp), the name may have become aXeiovaa, etc., to which
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