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Brewer's: Phoebus
The sun or sun-god. In Greek mythology Apollo is called Phoebos (the sun-god), from the Greek verb phao (to shine).
“The rays divine of vernal Phoebus shine.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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