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CHRYSES

Volume 4 · 67 words · 1797 Edition

the priests of Apollo, father of Aspynome, called from him Gbry/sis. When Lyrcnssus was taken and the spoils divided among the conquerors, Chryses fell to the share of Agamemnon. Chryses upon this went to the Grecian camp to solicit his daughter's restoration; and when his prayers were fruitless, he implored the aid of Apollo, who visited the Greeks with a plague, and obliged them to restore Chryses.