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Sauroctŏnos

（σαυροκτόνος, “lizard slayer”). A special name of Apollo (q.v.) as represented in a famous statue by Praxiteles (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxiv. 19).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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