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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,

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

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