god
Apollo
The Greek and Roman god of archery (among much else); Praexaspes flatters Cambyses that not even Apollo could have shot more surely.
Reading notes
- On Anger §3.14 Apollo
The archer-god; Praexaspes' grim flattery was that not even Apollo could have shot more surely.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §10.82.24 the Pythian's shafts
Apollo, called 'Pythian' as the slayer of the serpent Python at Delphi; even his arrows, Seneca implies, would not have daunted this monster.
- Hercules (Mad) §26 Phoebus
Phoebus (the bright) is Apollo, god of the lyre and the bow, and the Sun; here, as the Sun, he is said to have risen late, his light held back for Hercules's begetting.
- Hercules (Mad) §462 The Delian
Apollo (born on Delos), who once served as herdsman to Admetus at Pherae: Amphitryon's proof that gods have borne servitude.
- Hercules on Oeta §1 Paean
Apollo (Paean, 'the healer'), who won his Delphic shrine at Cirrha by killing the serpent Python; Hercules contrasts that single feat with his own.
- Oedipus §223 priestess of Leto
The Pythia, prophetess of Apollo, son of Leto; she delivers the oracle in frenzy.