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- proper noun Name of Apollo at
Delphi
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Examples
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Pythian Apollo, if his dress-breeches are made in this fashion, and
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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