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was supposed to have visited him in Athens and taught him how to mix water with wine in the proper proportions. Amphictyon was later on dethroned by
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681:Description of Greece
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277:Amphictyonic League
134:dwelling, Armenian
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653:Roman Antiquities.
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84:Thermopylae
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526:Eustathius
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172:Pandora II
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596:Chronicle
555:Symposium
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466:Pausanias
445:Lycophron
312:10 years
266:Phthiotis
252:Mythology
224:, and of
214:Melanippe
180:Melanthea
148:Deucalion
98:Etymology
76:Ἀμφικτύων
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667:Vol I-IV
598:2, p. 26
592:Eusebius
532:, p. 277
419:Fowler,
327:See also
281:Dionysus
258:Lycoreia
222:Poseidon
184:Candybus
176:Melantho
581:587 ff.
570:, s.v.
546:scholia
494:Tzetzes
441:Tzetzes
365:587 ff.
301:Cranaus
242:Aetolus
234:Physcus
218:Cercyon
210:Chromia
202:Boeotus
191:Cranaus
132:shitish
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198:Itonus
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88:Athens
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128:kṣiti
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