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  • Meanwhile, the mad magician known as Loxias embarks on his farewell performance, intending to kill hundreds of spectators in the grand finale!

    DC Solicitations for July 2007 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Is he not called Loxias, [597] because he prefers ambiguity to longwindedness?

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • "Loxias," I said, "if there's good here it comes from you.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • Him shall not Pallas, thy slayer, save; so true the shaft Loxias keeps in his quiver for him.

    Rhesus 2008

  • Loxias from Phoenician isle, to minister to Phoebus in his halls, where his fane lies nestling 'neath the snow-swept peaks of Parnassus; over the

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Aegeus, Pandion's son, according to the oracle of Loxias.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Phoenicia is my native land where I was born and bred; and Agenor's children's children sent me hither as a first-fruits of the spoils of war foy Phoebus; but when the noble son of Oedipus was about to escort me to the hallowed oracle and the altars of Loxias, came Argives meantime against his city.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • O mother, crown my head with victor's wreaths; rejoice in my royal match; lead me to my lord; nay, if thou find me loth at all, thrust me there by force; for if Loxias be indeed a prophet, Agamemnon, that famous king of the Achaeans, will find in me a bride more fraught with woe to him than Helen.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Chosen from my city as beauty's gift for Loxias, to the land of Cadmus I came, sent thither to the towers of Laius, the home of my kin, the famous sons of Agenor; and there I became the handmaid of

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Now is the oracle of Loxias being fulfilled, my child.

    The Phoenissae 2008

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