The triple repetition of the god's name has a hymnic effect and so in form as well as function these lines are a modification of the standard appeal of the komast to a divinity for help.
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The triple repetition of the god's name has a hymnic effect and so in form as well as function these lines are a modification of the standard appeal of the komast to a divinity for help.
Source: wiktionary
In later versions of this theme on vases, a komast is occasionally found instead of the protosatyr here.
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