(), a surname of Artemis, who was represented as a
huntress with her chiton girt up. Others derived the name from the Attic village of Chitone,
or from the circumstance of the clothes in which newly-born children were dressed being sacred
to her. (Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 225 ; Schol. ad Callim.
Hymn. in Jov. 77.) Respecting the festival of the Chitonia celebrated to her at Chitone,
see Dict. of Ant. s. v.