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Decatephorus

Δεκατήφορος

(Δεκατήφορος), that is, the god to whom the tenth part of the booty is dedicated, was a surname of Apollo at Megara. Pausanias (1.42.5) remarks, that the statues of Apollo Pythius and Decatephorus at Megara resembled Egyptian sculptures.

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.