Greeting to Eucoline as an Epithet of Hecate

Notes

1. §21.1Εὐκολίνη — A feminine hypocoristic form of the adjective εὔκολος ('good-tempered', 'gentle', 'easy-going'). Here, it functions as a euphemistic or antiphrastic designation for the fearsome underworld goddess Hecate, used either to appease her or to avert her wrath.
2. §21.1κατὰ ἀντίφρασιν — An adverbial phrase consisting of the preposition κατὰ ('according to') and the noun ἀντίφρασις ('antiphrasis', 'expression by the opposite'). It refers to the rhetorical figure of using a word to mean its opposite, in this case, the ancient practice of giving auspicious names to terrifying deities to avoid bad luck.