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Phoebus [ˈfiːbəs] n
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Also called Phoebus Apollo Greek myth Apollo as the sun god 2. (Literature / Poetry) Poetic a personification of the sun [via Latin from Greek Phoibos bright; related to phaos light] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Come, let us make haste, or the sunshine will be gone, and Phoebus along with it. Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers, at your service, my beauty He showed men a new way of poetry; he proved to them that nightingale was as poetical a word as Philomel, that it was possible to speak of the sun and the moon as the sun and the moon, and not as Phoebus and Diana. |
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