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Chryses

Chryses · m

a priest of Apollo

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What it meant

Chrȳses — Lewis & Short

Chrȳses, ae, m., = *xru/shs,

I a priest of Apollo, from Chryse, in Troas, the father of Astynome, on account of whose close captivity by Agamemnon, Apollo sent a pestilence upon the Grecian hosts, Hyg. Fab. 121; Ov. A. A. 2, 402.—As a title of a tragedy of Pacuvius, Cic. Or. 46, 155; id. Div. 1, 57, 131 al.—Hence, Chrȳsēïs, ĭdis, f., = *xrn shi/s, his daughter Astynome, Ov. Tr. 2, 373; id. R. Am. 469.

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