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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABARIS  , a Scythian or Hyperborean, See also:

priest and See also:prophet of See also:Apollo, who is said to have visited See also:Greece about 770 B.C., or two or three centuries later . According to the See also:legend, he travelled throughout the See also:country, living without See also:food and See also:riding on a See also:golden arrow, the See also:gift of the See also:god ; he healed the sick, foretold the future, worked miracles, and delivered See also:Sparta from a See also:plague (See also:Herod. iv . 36 ; See also:Iamblichus, De Vii . Pythag. xix . 28) . Suidas credits him with several 'See also:works : Scythian oracles, the visit of Apollo to the See also:Hyperboreans, expiatory formulas and a See also:prose theogony .

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