| An elevated term for a witch was pythoness, which came to us in medieval times from medical Latin via French. |
| Laius set off to ask the oracular Pythoness at Delphi how to deal with this monster. |
| But she was a pythoness, and did not at all come up to our idea of a witch. |
| It was a pythoness from Syria that advised Marius on the sacrifices he was to perform. |
| Will it be said that there was any collusion between St. Paul and the Pythoness? |
| But at Delphi the sun-god's spiritual bride was known in the days of Herodotus as the Pythoness, and later as Pythia. |
