Epicurius

The helper, a surname of Apollo, under which he was worshiped at Bassae in Arcadia. Every year a wild boar was sacrificed to him in his temple on Mount Lycaeus. He had received this surname because he had at one time delivered the country from a pestilence.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 38.6, 41.5.
  • 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.