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: Ænēid, vi. 345.) “Neque te Phœbi cortina fefellit.”
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