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pythium

n. any fungus of the genus Pythium

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Pythium

Pythium is a genus of parasitic oomycotes. They were formerly classified as fungi. Most species are plant parasites, but Pythium insidiosum is an important pathogen of animals, causing Pythiosis. The feet of the fungus gnat are frequently a vector for their transmission.

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Acropolis extending to the Ilissus, and reaching to the east far enough to include the existing Olympieum, with the Pythium and Callirrhoe, which lay near.

The Pythium of the passage cannot be that Pythium close by the present Olympieum, which was founded by Pisistratus.

Euripides makes it clear that, from the wall near the Pythium, the watchers looked toward Harma for that lightning which was the signal for the sending of the offering to Delphi.

This wall has always been a source of trouble to those who place the Pythium in question near the present Olympieum.

The two guides were then ordered so to regulate the length of each day's march as to allow of an attack being made on Pythium in the fourth watch of the third day.