Phaeacian
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The next day in the presence of all the Phaeacian chiefs he told the story of his ten years’ wandering.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
At last he started home, but a tempest shipwrecked him and only after many and great dangers had he succeeded in reaching the Phaeacian land, a helpless, destitute man.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The Phaeacian story is indeed episodic; the interest of those adventures is different from that of the meeting with Penelope.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
They seek the cisterns where Phaeacian dames Wash their fair garments in the limpid streams; Where, gathering into depth from falling rills, The lucid wave a spacious bason fills.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
Soon we see the cloud-capped Phaeacian towers sink away, skirt the shores of Epirus, and enter the Chaonian haven and approach high Buthrotum town.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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