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Phaethon

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Pha´e`thon
n.1.(Class. Myth.) The son of Helios (Phœbus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
2.(Zool.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
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Noun1.Phaethon - (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
2.Phaethon - type genus of the Phaethontidae
genus Phaethon
bird genus - a genus of birds
family Phaethontidae, Phaethontidae - tropicbirds
boatswain bird, tropic bird, tropicbird - mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land


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It was Phaethon who drove them to Fiesole that memorable day, a youth all irresponsibility and fire, recklessly urging his master's horses up the stony hill.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
Indeed they would have gone on indulging their sorrow till rosy-fingered morn appeared, had not Minerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far west, while she would not suffer Dawn to leave Oceanus, nor to yoke the two steeds Lampus and Phaethon that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind.
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And to Cephalus she bare a splendid son, strong Phaethon, a man like the gods, whom, when he was a young boy in the tender flower of glorious youth with childish thoughts, laughter-loving Aphrodite seized and caught up and made a keeper of her shrine by night, a divine spirit.
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