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Agyieus

Ἀγυιεύς

(Ἀγυιεύς), a surname of Apollo describing him as the protector of the streets and public places. As such he was worshipped at Acharnae (Paus. 1.31.3), Mycenae (2.19.7), and at Tegea. (8.53.1.) The origin of the worship of Apollo Agyieus in the last of these places is related by Pausanias. (Compare Hor. Carm. 4.6.28; Macr. 1.9.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.