(), a surname of Apollo, derived from the Lycian
town of Patara, where he had an oracle, and where, according to Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 4.143), the god used to spend the six winter
months in every year. (Hor. C(arin. 3.4. 64; Lycoph. 920; Hdt. 1.162; Strab. xiv. p.665,
&c.; Paus. 9.41.1.)