Alexi'cacus
(
*)Aleci/kakos), the averter of evil, is a surname given by the Greeks to several deities, as--Zeus (Orph.
De Lapid. Prooem. i.),--to Apollo, who was worshipped under this name by the Athenians, because he was believed to have stopped the plague which raged at Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian war (
Paus. 1.3.3,
8.41.5),--and to Heracles. (Lactant. 5.3.)
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