tegyraeus

Updated: May 25, 2025

For the river Melas, almost as soon as it rises, spreads itself into marshes and navigable pools, and makes all the plain between impassable. A little below the marshes stands the temple and oracle of Apollo Tegyraeus, forsaken not long before that time, having flourished till the Median wars, Echecrates then being priest.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans