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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523
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Transliteration A: Pýthōn Transliteration B: Pythōn Transliteration C: Python Beta Code: *pu/qwn

English (LSJ)

[ῡ], ωνος, ὁ, (cf. Πυθώ) the serpent Python, slain by Apollo, Ephor.31(b)J., Apollod.1.4.1, Plu.2.293c.    II παιδίσκη ἔχουσα πνεῦμα Πύθωνα a spirit of divination, Act.Ap.16.16.    2 pl. Πύθωνες, ventriloquists, Plu.2.414e, cf. Hsch.