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Thymbraeus

Θυμβραῖος

(Θυμβραῖος).

1. A surname of Apollo, derived from a place in Troas called Thynmbra, where he had a temple in which Achilles was wounded, or from a neighboring hill of the same name. (Strab. xiii. p.598; Steph. Byz. s. v. Θύμβρα; Eurip. Rhes. 224; Serv. ad Acn. 3.85; Horn. Il. 10.430.)

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.