Cortina
The skin of the serpent Pytho, which covered the tripod of the
Pythoness when she delivered her oracles. “Tripodas cortina tegit” (
Prudentius: Apophthegmata, 506); also the tripod itself, or the
place where the oracle was delivered. (Virgil: AEneid, vi. 345.)
“Neque te Phoebi cortina fefellit.”
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