Pythius
Pythius, Pythian, Delphic
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Pythio Proper-name adjective: neuter dative singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine ablative singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine dative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter ablative singular of Pythius
Pythio Noun: neuter dative singular, Noun: neuter ablative singular of pythion
Delphini, Phocae, sua Phoebo [Phitia ] voce
nosce teipsum, o homo, quia non Fitii Apollinis sed sancti Salomonis est quod legitur
Phyton est serpens valde magnus quem Apollo interfecit et ideo vocatus est Phytius, et Phytea sunt ludi celebres quos ipse constituit in memoriam tanti facti
quid est Pithium metrum? idem quod exametrum
hoc metrum post Homerum heroici nomen accepit, Pithium antea dictum, eo quod Apollinis oracula illo sint metro edita
quod metrum ante Homerum Pytium dictum est, post Homerum heroicum nominatum
nempe cum Phicium dispari fistula septemque cannis alternatimque sepositis, rutroque pastorali vel baculo, pelleque pastoria penulave pastoraliter compositum ‥
Phyton est serpens valde magnus quam Apollo interfecit et ideo vocatus est Phytius
Pithi, poetici
Phycii sunt quos spiritus Phitonicus replet
(Πύθιος), the Pythian, from Pytho, the ancient name of Delphi, often occurs as a surname of Apollo, whose oracle was at Delphi. (Hom. Hymn. in Apoll. 373; Aeschyl. Agam. 521 ; Hor. Carm. 1.16. 6; Tac. Hist. 4.83.) [L.S]
(Πύθιος ; called Πύθης by Plutarch, vol. ii. p. 262d., and some others), a Lydian, the son of Atys, who lived in the time of the Persian invasion of Greece. He was a man of enormous wealth, which he derived from his gold mines in the neighbourhood of Celaenae in Phrygia, of which place he seems to have made himself governor. So eagerly did he prosecute his search for gold, that his subjects were almost all withdrawn from agriculture. Plutarch (l.c.) tells an amusing story of the device adopted by his wife to point out to him the absurdity of the course he was pursuing. She had a quantity of gold wrought into representations of various kinds of food, and set nothing but these before him one day for dinner. When Xerxes arrived at Celaenae, Pvthius banqueted him and his whole army. He had previously sent a golden plane tree and vine as a present to Dareius. He informed Xerxes that, intending to offer him a quantity of money to defray the expenses of his expedition, he had reckoned up his wealth and found it to consist of 2000 talents of silver coin and 4,000,000, all but 7000, darics of gold coin. The whole of this he offered to Xerxes, who however did not accept it; but made him a present of the odd 7000 darics, and granted him the rights of hospitality. His five sons accompanied Xerxes. Pythius, alarmed by an eclipse of the sun which happened, came to Xerxes, and begged that the eldest might be left behind. This request so enraged the king that he had the young man immediately killed and cut in two, and the two portions of his body placed on either side of the road, and then ordered the army to march between them. His other sons perished in different battles. Pythius, overwhelmed with grief, passed the rest of his days in solitude (Hdt. 7.27-29, 38, 39; Plin. Nat. 33.10 ; Plut. l.c.). [C.P.M]
architect [Phileus].
(Πύθιος). A Lydian, the son of Atys. He was a man of enormous wealth, which he derived from his gold mines in the neighbourhood of Celaenae in Phrygia. When Xerxes arrived at Celaenae, Pythius banqueted him and his whole army. His five sons accompanied Xerxes. Pythius, alarmed by an eclipse of the sun which happened, came to Xerxes, and begged that the eldest might be left behind. This request so enraged the king that he had the young man immediately killed and cut in two, and the two portions of his body placed on either side of the road, and then ordered the army to march between them (Herod.vii. 21).
- his offer of his wealth to Xerxes: Hdt. 7.27-29
- his request to Xerxes and its consequences: Hdt. 7.38, Hdt. 7.39