A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ἐπιβατήριος), the god who conducts men on board a ship, a surname of Apollo, under which Diomedes on his return from Troy built him a temple at Troezene. (Paus. 2.32.1.) In the same sense Apollo bore the surname of Ἐμβάσιος. (Apollon. 1.404.)

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