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Nov 28, 2009
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A•lex•i•ca•cus



Pronunciation: (u-lek"si-kā'kus), [key]
n. Class. Myth.
an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.

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