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Phrixus

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Phrixus [ˈfrɪksəs]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the son of Athamas and Nephele who escaped the wrath of his father's mistress, Ino, by flying to Colchis on a winged ram with a golden fleece See also Helle, Golden Fleece


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Since that time, Phrixus had married the king's daughter; and the two young princes had been born and brought up at Colchis, and had spent their play-days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was hanging upon a tree.
Otto Muller suggests that the introduction of Thetis and of Phrixus (frags.
 
 
 
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