Lyterius

I.e. the Deliverer, a surname of Pan, under which he had a sanctuary at Troezen, because he was believed during a plague to have revealed in dreams the proper remedy against the disease. See also Lysius.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 35.5.
  • 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.