Phrixus

[ frik-suhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.

Phrixus

/ ˈfrɪksəs /

noun

1. See Golden Fleece, Helle
   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

Example Sentences

For when a famine came upon the land, their cruel stepmother wished to kill Phrixus and Helle, that her own children might reign.

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She said Phrixus and Helle must be sacrificed on an altar, to turn away the anger of the gods, who sent the famine.

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Sometimes Phrixus seemed to call him in a thin voice, faint and low, as if it came from far across the sea.

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When Chalciope saw him, she wept and took his hands and cried, "O cousin of my beloved Phrixus, go home before you die!"

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The ghost of Phrixus stands by my bedside every night, wailing and will not be comforted, till the Fleece is brought home again.'

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