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Phaeacian

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Phaeacian [fiːˈeɪʃən]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of a race of people inhabiting the island of Scheria visited by Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War


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Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon.
This hath been strongly urged in defence of Homer's miracles; and it is perhaps a defence; not, as Mr Pope would have it, because Ulysses told a set of foolish lies to the Phaeacians, who were a very dull nation; but because the poet himself wrote to heathens, to whom poetical fables were articles of faith.
 
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