Epicu'rius
(
*)Epikou/rios), the helper, a surname of Apollo, under which he was worshipped at Bassae in Arcadia. Every year a wild boar was sacrificed to him in his temple on mount Lycaeus.
He had received this surname because he had at one time delivered the country from a pestilence. (
Paus. 8.383.6,
41.5.)
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