Pȳth'i-an, a.

a. [Lat. Pythius, Gr. Πύθιος, belonging to Pytho, the older name of Delphi and its environs; Fr. Pythien.] Pertaining to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles.

Pythian games (Gr. Antiq.), one of the four great national festivals of ancient Greece, celebrated near Delphi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in nine, afterward once in five, years.