On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.
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Pythoness
Synonyms for "pythoness" (16 found)
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Translations
8 translations across 5 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- pitonisa noun (female soothsayer)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гадателка noun (female soothsayer)
French
1 entries- pythie noun (priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi — see also Pythia)
Macedonian
1 entries- га́талка noun (female soothsayer)
Russian
4 entries- вещу́нья noun (female soothsayer)
- пи́фия noun (priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi — see also Pythia)
- предсказа́тельница noun (female soothsayer)
- прорица́тельница noun (female soothsayer)
Sample sentences
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The office of Pythoness appears not to have been desirable. Either the emanations from the cavern, or some art of the managers, threw her into real convulsions. Priests entitled prophets led her to the sacred tripod, force being often necessary for that purpose, and held her on it till her frenzy rose to whatever pitch was in their judgement most fit for the occasion.
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The unconnected words which the Pythoness screamed out in her madness were arranged into sentences by the attendant priests, who could easily place them in such an order, and fill up the breaks in such a way, as to make them express whatever was most suitable to the interests of the shrine, which was the main object.
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Less becomingly Origen states that when the Pythoness sat down at the mouth of the cave, "the prophetic spirit of Apollo entered her private parts"; ...
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