Brewer's: Amphrysian Prophetess

(Amphrysia Vates) The Cumæan sibyl; so called from Amphrysos, a river of Thessaly, on the banks of which Apollo fed the herds of Admetos; consequently Amphrysian means Apollonian.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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