Phaeacia
Americannoun
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Seventeen days he held his course, and on the eighteenth the coast of Phaeacia was in sight.
From The Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb, Charles
Put off these garments, and swim to the land of Phaeacia, putting this veil under thy breast.
From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer
To reach Phaeacia all thy nerves extend, There Fate decrees thy miseries shall end.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
The sight of high Phaeacia soon we lost, And skimm'd along Epirus' rocky coast.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
For seventeen days the stars serve as his guides, and he is nearing the island of Phaeacia, when Neptune becomes aware that his hated foe is about to escape.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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