They could no more have accepted the challenge of this brave creature, than they could have smitten Damon at the side of pythias.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
Among the Siouan peoples, too, the individual brotherhood of the David-Jonathan or Damon-pythias type was characteristically developed.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
He is my best friend, my Euryalus, my Orestes, my pythias.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock