Pythion, an Athenian killed, with 420 soldiers, when he attempted to drive the garrison of Demetrius from Athens, &c. Polyænus, bk. 5.
Pythium, a town of Thessaly. Livy, bk. 42, ch. 53; bk. 44, ch. 2.
Pythius, a Syracusan, who defrauded Canius, a Roman knight, to whom he had sold his gardens, &c. Cicero, de Officiis, bk. 3, ch. 14.——A surname of Apollo, which he had received for his having conquered the serpent Python, or because he was worshipped at Delphi; called also Pytho. Macrobius, bk. 1, Saturnalia, ch. 17.—Propertius, bk. 2, poem 33, li. 16.
Pytho, the ancient name of the town of Delphi, which it received ἀπο του πυθεσθαι, because the serpent which Apollo killed, rotted there. It was also called Parnassia Nape. See: [Delphi].
Pythochăris, a musician, who assuaged the fury of some wolves by playing on a musical instrument, &c. Ælian.
Pythŏcles, an Athenian descended from Aratus. It is said, that on his account, and for his instruction, Plutarch wrote the life of Aratus.——A man put to death with Phocion.——A man who wrote on Italy.
Pythodōrus, an Athenian archon in the age of Themistocles.
Pytholāus, the brother of Theba, the wife of Alexander tyrant of Pheræ. He assisted his sister in despatching her husband. Plutarch.
Python, a native of Byzantium, in the age of Philip of Macedonia. He was a great favourite of the monarch who sent him to the Thebes, when that city, at the instigation of Demosthenes, was going to take arms against Philip. Plutarch, Demosthenes.—Diodorus.——One of the friends of Alexander, put to death by Ptolemy Lagus.——A man who killed Cotys king of Thrace at the instigation of the Athenians.——A celebrated serpent sprung from the mud and stagnated waters which remained on the surface of the earth after the deluge of Deucalion. Some, however, suppose that it was produced from the earth by Juno, and sent by the goddess to persecute Latona, who was then pregnant by Jupiter. Latona escaped his fury by means of her lover, who changed her into a quail during the remaining months of her pregnancy, and afterwards restored her to her original shape in the island of Delos, where she gave birth to Apollo and Diana. Apollo, as soon as he was born, attacked the monster and killed him with his arrows, and in commemoration of the victory which he had obtained, he instituted the celebrated Pythian games. Strabo, bk. 8.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 7; bk. 10, ch. 6.—Hyginus.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 438, &c.—Lucan, bk. 5, li. 134.
Pythonĭce, an Athenian prostitute greatly honoured by Harpalus, whom Alexander some time before had entrusted with the treasures of Babylon. He married her; and according to some, she died at the very moment that the nuptials were going to be celebrated. He raised her a splendid monument on the road which led from Athens to Eleusis, which cost him 30 talents. Diodorus, bk. 17.—Pausanias, bk. 1.—Athenæus, bk. 13, &c.