Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Pyrrhichus” in book 3, chapter 25 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
... . . . further from an altar of Zeus. Inland, forty stades from the river, lies Pyrrhichus, the name of which is said to be derived from Pyrrhus the son of Achilles;
but according to another account Pyrrhichus was one of the gods called Curetes. Others say that Silenus came from Malea and settled here. That Silenus was brought up in Malea is clear from these words in an ode of Pindar:The mighty one, the da...
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