Epibaterius

The god who conducts men on board a ship, a surname of Apollo, under which Diomedes on his return from Troy built him a temple at Troezen.1 In the same sense Apollo bore the surname of Embasius (Ἐμβάσιος).2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 32.1.
  2. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 404.

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.