Epaine
Ἐπαινή
(Ἐπαινή), that is, the fearful, a surname of Persephone. (Hom. Il. 9.457.) Plutarch (de Aud poet. p. 23a.) derives the name from αἶνος, which suggests, that it might also be understood in a euphemistic sense as the praised goddess.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.