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ADYTUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 244 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADYTUM  , the Latinized

form of &Svrov (not to be entered), the innermost sanctuary in ancient temples, access to which was forbidden to all but the officiating priests . The most famous adytum in
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Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi .

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