pythoness

pythoness
subs.
Pythian priestess: see priestess.

pythoness (prop. the priestess of Apollo at Delphi), a wild prophetess: Pȳthĭa, ae, f (ἡ Πυθία): Nep. Milt. 1: Pythia vates, Cic. Div. 1, 19: late Lat. Pythōnissa, ae, f.: Vulg. 1 Paralip. x. 13 (for the witch of En-dor). Note: the Vulg. has the cognate spiritum pythonem (A. V. a spirit of divination), Act. xvi. 16.