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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Pythia

    historical figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    the Pythia · the oracle · the Pythian · the god · the oracle of Delphi · the priestess · tripod and the Delphian laurel

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    the Pythia4 mentions

    The Histories (Greek) · Stromata (Greek) · Apology (Greek)

    with this knowledge it was that they sent to the oracle at Delphi, where they received the answer about which I spoke a little while ago.
    chapter 7

    The Pythia of Delphi1 mention

    The Histories (Greek)

    And further, Loxias saved Croesus from burning.
    chapter 1

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The oracular priestess of Apollo at Delphi, quoted or reported three times delivering pronouncements.

    And the Delphians, when Xerxes was marching against Hellas, the Pythia having proclaimed, "O Delphians, pray to the winds, and it shall be the better," having made an altar and a sacrifice to the winds, had them as helpers;
    book 6
    And again, when Herodotus in the account of Glaucus the Spartan had said that the Pythia declared that to make trial of the god and to do the deed came to the same thing, Aristophanes said, "For thinking has equal power with doing";
    book 6
    But indeed the Greeks — when a drought once was for a long time wasting Hellas and a barrenness of crops held it fast, the survivors, they say, coming as suppliants by reason of the famine to Delphi, asked the Pythia how they might be rid of the evil.
    book 6

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    The Delphic priestess who delivers Apollo's oracle concerning Theagenes.

    When, all having returned, there was no improvement, consulting again, the Pythia is said to have answered thus:
    oration 31
    The maxims of the Seven Sages, too, they hear were set up of old at Delphi, as, in a manner, certain first-fruits of those men's wisdom and at the same time for the benefit of mankind—as being in truth divine, and well-nigh more divine than the oracles which the Pythia delivered, sitting upon the tripod, filled with the breath of the god.
    oration 72

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    The priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracle warning that Sparta would lose either its city or a king of the Heraclid line.

    with this knowledge it was that they sent to the oracle at Delphi, where they received the answer about which I spoke a little while ago.
    chapter 7
    When the Spartans asked the oracle about this war when it broke out, the Pythia had foretold that either Lacedaemon would be destroyed by the barbarians or their king would be killed.
    chapter 7
    And further, Loxias saved Croesus from burning.
    chapter 1

    Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

    Delphic priestess whose oracle and alleged political bias are invoked.

    And did not Demosthenes oppose, and say that the Pythia had gone over to Philip?
    against ctesiphon
    The Pythia replied that they must fight against the Cirrhaeans and the Cragalidae day and night, bitterly ravage their country, enslave the inhabitants, and dedicate the land to the Pythian Apollo and Artemis and Leto and Athena Pronaea, that for the future it lie entirely uncultivated;
    against ctesiphon

    De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

    The oracular priestess of Apollo at Delphi, whose pronouncements from the tripod were considered authoritative.

    Oracles holier and soundlier based
    chapter 5
    Than ever the Pythian pronounced for men
    chapter 5
    From out the tripod and the Delphian laurel,
    chapter 5

    ApologyClassical · Greek

    The oracle priestess at Delphi who declared that no one was wiser than Socrates when questioned by Chaerephon.

    Now the Pythia replied that there was no one wiser.
    apology