Brewer's: Pyrodes

(3 syl.), son of Clias was so called, according to Pliny (vii. 56), because he was the first to strike fire from flint. (Greek, pur, fire; = ignitus.)

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