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Surely the great Pythia, the Oracle of Apollo, can see what I can: the terrible future even an old woman could read in her morning tea leaves.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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Karen Chance has created a world in which the Pythia named for the ancient Greek clairvoyant priestess that presided over the Oracle of Apollo has the ability to go back in time to change events.
Book 2 in the Cassandra Palmer Series.... Stephanie 2008
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Karen Chance has created a world in which the Pythia named for the ancient Greek clairvoyant priestess that presided over the Oracle of Apollo has the ability to go back in time to change events.
Archive 2008-11-01 Stephanie 2008
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Socrates, whom though that Oracle of Apollo confirmed to be the wisest man then living, and saved him from plague, whom 2000 years have admired, of whom some will as soon speak evil as of Christ, yet re vera, he was an illiterate idiot, as [204] Aristophanes calls him, irriscor et ambitiosus, as his master
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Whereupon the miserable father of this unfortunate daughter, suspecting that the gods and powers of heaven did envy her estate, went to the town called Milet to receive the Oracle of Apollo, where he made his prayers and offered sacrifice, and desired a husband for his daughter: but
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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a great serpent full of deadly poyson, with a ravenous gaping throat, that lieth with thee every night Remember the Oracle of Apollo, who pronounced that thou shouldest he married to a dire and fierce Serpent, and many of the Inhabitants hereby, and such as hunt about in the countrey, affirme that they saw him yesternight returning from pasture and swimming over the
The Golden Asse 1566
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