Phoebus
noun
Apollo as the sun god.
Phoebean
-
a word derived from
Phoebus.
Example Sentences
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The pious youth, more studious how to save His aged sire, now sinking to the grave, Preferr'd the pow'r of plants, and silent praise Of healing arts, before Phoebean bays.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
The earth and all its planetary kin, Starry buds tangled in the whirling hair That flames round the Phoebean wassailer, Speed no more ignorant, more predestined flight, Than I, HER viewless tresses netted in.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
Light falling upon carved forms of gods and heroes, bathing clear-cut columns and sharp basreliefs in simple lustre, was enough for the Phoebean rites of Hellas.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
Raphael is the Phoebean singer; to him the Renaissance reveals her joy and dowers him with her gift of melody.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
There is something pathetic in the retirement of the grey-haired Perugino from Rome, to make way for the victorious Phoebean beauty of the boy Raphael.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
