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I'd just like to note that your example of Pluto/Hades is a really bad one to pick, given Attic and wider Greek usage of the 5th century onwards:
" τὸ δὲ Πλούτωνος, τοῦτο μὲν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ πλούτου δόσιν, ὅτι ἐκ τῆς γῆς κάτωθεν ἀνίεται ὁ πλοῦτος, ἐπωνομάσθη: ὁ δὲ ‘Ἅιδης,’ οἱ πολλοὶ μέν μοι δοκοῦσιν ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸ ἀιδὲς προσειρῆσθαι τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ, καὶ φοβούμενοι τὸ ὄνομα ‘Πλούτωνα’ καλοῦσιν αὐτόν.
"As for Pluto, he was so named as the giver of wealth, because wealth comes up from below out of the earth. And Hades—I fancy most people think that this is a name of the Invisible, so they are afraid and call him Pluto."
(Cratylus, 403a)
" τὸ δὲ Πλούτωνος, τοῦτο μὲν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ πλούτου δόσιν, ὅτι ἐκ τῆς γῆς κάτωθεν ἀνίεται ὁ πλοῦτος, ἐπωνομάσθη: ὁ δὲ ‘Ἅιδης,’ οἱ πολλοὶ μέν μοι δοκοῦσιν ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸ ἀιδὲς προσειρῆσθαι τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ, καὶ φοβούμενοι τὸ ὄνομα ‘Πλούτωνα’ καλοῦσιν αὐτόν.
"As for Pluto, he was so named as the giver of wealth, because wealth comes up from below out of the earth. And Hades—I fancy most people think that this is a name of the Invisible, so they are afraid and call him Pluto."
(Cratylus, 403a)
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