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sources uniformly represent the Pythia speaking intelligibly, and giving prophecies in her own voice. Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, describes the Pythia speaking in dactylic hexameters.

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The name Pythia is derived from "pythia hiereia" , meaning ; it is related to Pythios ??????, an epithet of Apollo, itself deriving from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi.

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