Pygian

//ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən//

"Pygian" in a Sentence (2 examples)

[...] and the terrible conviction forced itself upon my mind, that progress for me in this path there was none, until my executioner should have turned my pygian epidermis into a road-map, and have engraved all my stopping places indelibly ...

Pygian Mysteries Eumolpus did not hesitate to invite the girl to the pygian mysteries. He asked her to sit down on the good part recommended to her (that is, on himself, to whose goodness her mother had recommended her daughter).

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