Apollo

[ə'pɒləʊ]

Definition

(noun.) (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis.

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Definition

(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.

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Examples

Your horses of the Sun, he said, And first-rate whip Apollo! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
I am a friend of Apollo's. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
They abounded in China, in India, and in Egypt before the lyre of Apollo was invented, or the charming harp of Orpheus was conceived. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
His finely turned head might be copied for that of the Apollo Belvidere, and yet he has no vanity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Graham was a beauty; a very Apollo in form, with handsome features, particularly his teeth and eyes; sensible too, and well educated. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
This Apollo, for instance, he said, as they paused before a life-sized nude figure holding a lyre, was found at Delos and brought to me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Your mourning Man of Sorrows is entirely opposed to our joyous Apollo, your gloomy views of life to our serenity of temperament. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Epic poem--ten thousand lines-- revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night--bang the field-piece, twang the lyre. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Mars, Bacchus, Apollo virorum, hey? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
As Apollo,' replied Winkle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
You are sensitive about the cut of your features because they are not quite on an Apollo pattern. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Nothing for us; but to Apollo the god of Delphi we leave the ordering of the greatest of all things--that is to say, religion. Plato. The Republic.
Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,--tall, fair, blue- eyed, and with a Grecian profile. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. Plato. The Republic.
As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence to Apollo, where he says, 'Thou hast wronged me, O far-darter, most abominable of deities. Plato. The Republic.

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