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Πύθι^ος [υ_; ι_ metri gr. in h.Ap.373], α, ον, (Πυ_θώ) Pythian, i.e. Delphian, epith. of Apollo, l.c., Pi.O.14.11, etc. (Π. alone is f.l. in E. Ion 285); ἐν Πυθίου in
A.his temple, Th.6.54 (citing Πυθίου ἐν τεμένει from IG12.761), IG22.17.10, prob. in Pl.Grg.472b; also οἱ Πύθιοι, αἱ Πύθιαι, the gods and goddesses worshipped at Pytho or Delphi, Ar.Th. 332, cf. IG14.2436 (Massilia).
2. = Πυθικός, ἄεθλα, στέφανοι, μαντεύματα, Pi.P.3.73, 10.26, I.7(6).15; “ἀκταί” S.OC1047 (lyr.); “ἀστραπαί” E.Ion 285; “κύκνος” Ar.Av.870.
II. οἱ Πύθιοι, at Sparta, four persons whose office it was to consult the Delphic oracle on affairs of state, Hdt.6.57, X.Lac.15.5, etc.; cf. Πυθία, Πύθια, Πύθιον.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 870
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 332
    • Euripides, Ion, 285
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.57
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 373
    • Plato, Gorgias, 472b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1047
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 15.5
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.54
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