Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, A, Abăris

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Abăris

（Ἄβαρις).

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A Hyperborean priest of Apollo, who came from the country about the Caucasus to Greece, while his native land was visited by a plague. His history is entirely mythical: he is said to have taken no earthly food, and to have ridden on an arrow, the gift of Apollo, through the air. (See Müller, Dorier, i. 364.)

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A city of Egypt, east of the Bubastic mouth of the Nile.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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