Patareus

A surname of Apollo, derived from the Lycian town of Patara, where he had an oracle, and where, according to Servius,1 the god used to spend the six winter months in every year.

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References

Notes

  1. on Aeneid iv, 143

Sources

  • Herodotus. Histories i, 162.
  • Horace. Carmina iii, 4. 64.
  • Lycophron. Alexandra, 920.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 41.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography xiv, p. 665 ff.

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