Pythian Apollo love

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  • proper noun Name of Apollo at Delphi

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Translates Greek Απόλλων Πύθιος.

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Examples

  • Pythian Apollo, if his dress-breeches are made in this fashion, and

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

  • Some say that the cow which was given by the Pythian Apollo as a guide to Kadmus [236] appeared there, and that the place was so called from her; for the

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Latona, the Pythian Apollo, and his sister Artemis; -- venerable images to Lysander's early associations.

    Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Pythian Apollo, assumes his bow and arrows; plants himself in the remotest corner of the room, and prepares his fatal shafts.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Temple of the_ Pythian Apollo, _in the Forty sixth Olympiad, and leaped from the Promontory of_ Leucate _into the_ Ionian Sea, _in order to cure themselves of the Passion of Love_.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • So the Roman matrons offered their gold and ornaments as first-fruits to Pythian Apollo, out of which a golden cup was made and sent to Delphi; [883] and the Carthaginian matrons had their heads shorn, and with the hair cut off made cords for the machines and engines to be used in defence of their country. [

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

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