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the Pythia

also: Pythia, Pythiae, Pythiam

The prophetic priestess of Apollo at Delphi, roused (Cicero says) by an exhalation from the earth; she utters the responses, including the prophecy against Brennus's Gauls (De Divinatione 1.38, 1.79, 1.81).

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