Phyxius

I.e., the god who protects fugitives, occurs as a surname of Zeus in Thessaly,1 and of Apollo.2

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References

Notes

  1. Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, ii, 1147; iv, 699; Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 21.3; iii, 17.8.
  2. Philostratus. Heroicus x, 4.

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.