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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pyrodes

(3 syl.), son of Clias was so called, according to Pliny (vii. 56), because he was the first to strike fire from flint. (Greek, pur, fire; = ignitus.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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