Alexicacus

"Averter of evil." The averter of evil, is a surname given by the Greeks to several deities, as — Zeus,1 — to Apollo, who was worshiped under this name by the Athenians, because he was believed to have stopped the plague which raged at Athens in the tine of the Peloponnesian war,2 — and to Heracles.3

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References

Notes

  1. Orphic. De Lapidem Prooemium i.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 3.3; viii, 41.5.
  3. Lactantius, v, 3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.