Μαχαιρευς
'The man with the knife', one of the priests of Delphi, and a son of Daitas who killed NEOPTOLEMUS because the latter complained about the custom of the Delphic priests of taking flesh of victims sacrificed to Apollo (see ORESTES).
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Table of Sources:
- Pind. Nem. 7,42 (62) with schol.;
- schol. on Euripides, or. 1654;
- Strabo 9,3,9, p.421;
- Apollod. Epit. 6,14.