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phoebus

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1. phoebus - Noun

2. Phoebus - Proper noun

Meaning

Apollo; the sun god.

The sun.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse, All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear, Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian. What you cannot clearly say, you don't know: To tongue of man his thought brings word: What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely. Esaias Tegnér

Phoebus is dead, ephebe. But Phoebus was A name for something that never could be named. There was a project for the sun and is. Wallace Stevens

Polyxo, the priestess beloved of Phoebus. Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Where still the branches guarded the skin of ruddy hue, like to illumined cloud or to Iris when she ungirds her robe and glides to meet glowing Phoebus. Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Although Esmeralda does not love him, and in fact believes him a coward rather than a true man — unlike Phoebus, he failed in his attempt to rescue her from Quasimodo — she takes pity on his plight and marries him. Source: Internet

Fleur-de-Lys later neglects to inform Phoebus that Esmeralda has not been executed, which serves to deprive the pair of any further contact—though as Phoebus no longer loves Esmeralda by this time, this does not matter. Source: Internet

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