During the crisis, the city appealed to the Pythia for guidance, hoping her cryptic prophecy would reveal a way forward.

The ancient texts referred to several Pythias who delivered cryptic prophecies to visiting rulers.

Many of the town's oldest buildings were donated to the Knights of Pythias, who used them as meeting halls.

Scholars debated how the pythiad influenced the scheduling of festivals across ancient Greece.

The pythiaceous pathogen devastated the rice seedlings in the flooded paddies.

The pythiads returned to Delphi to celebrate their victories.

Pythians gathered at the lodge to celebrate the centennial of their order.

As a Pythiast, she traveled to Delphi at the first sign of political unrest to seek guidance from the oracle.

The philologist noted that the hymn's meter was distinctly pythiambic, echoing the Pythian mode while maintaining a strict iambic rhythm.

The scholar argued that the ancient poet composed in Pythian verse, imbuing his lines with the rolling rhythm of epic tradition.