Patareus
(
Παταρεύς), a surname of Apollo, derived from the Lycian town of Patara, where he had an oracle, and where, according to Servius (
Serv. ad Aen. 4.143), the god used to spend the six winter months in every year. (Hor.
C(arin. 3.4. 64; Lycoph. 920;
Hdt. 1.162;
Strab. xiv. p.665, &c.;
Paus. 9.41.1.)
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