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CLARII APOLLINIS FANUM

Volume 5 · 49 words · 1797 Edition

(Strabo, Pliny), a temple and grove of Apollo, situated between Colophon and Lebedos, in Ionia; called Claros (Thucydides, Ovid). The name also of a town and mountain there (Nicander); and of a fountain (Clemens Alexandrinus); the waters of which inspired with prophetic fury. Clarus the epithet of Apollo (Strabo).