Crossword clues for phoebus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phoebus \Ph[oe]"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? pure, bright.]
(Class. Myth.) Apollo; the sun god.
The sun. ``Ph[oe]bus 'gins arise.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
epithet of Apollo as sun-god, late 14c., from Latin Phoebus, from Greek Phoibos, literally "bright, shining, radiant," of unknown origin. Related: Phoeban.
Wikipedia
Phoebus (, , real name: Evangelos Tassopoulos, ; born January 1, 1971), sometimes spelled Phivos or Fivos, is a well-known songwriter in both Greece and Cyprus. Phoebus is mostly known for his music through Despina Vandi and Katy Garbi, although he has composed albums for many other artists in Greece and Cyprus. A high percentage of the albums he composes receive certification making him one of the most successful Greek songwriters of the 1990s and 2000s, selling 3,500,000 records. In 2009 he founded his own record label, The Spicy Effect, to which he has signed various artists, many of whom he has collaborated with in the past. He has an estimated net worth at 75 million euros.
Phoebus (also known as Apollo) is one of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology.
Phoebus may also refer to:
- Phoebus (lichen), a genus of fungus
- Captain Phoebus, a fictional character from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Phoebus, Virginia, United States
- Phoebus (planet), a fictional planet in the computer game Exile
- Phoebus cartel, a cartel that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs
- Phoebus High School, a public high school located in Hampton, Virginia
- Bölkow Phoebus, an early glass-fibre glider made by Bölkow GmbH, Germany in the 1960s
- Bristol Phoebus, a prototype jet engine of 1949
- The Phoebus nuclear thermal rocket engine developed in the 60s by Project Rover
People with the given name Phoebus:
- Francis Phoebus of Foix (circa 1469-1483), king of Navarre
- Phoebus (songwriter) (born 1971), Greek composer
- Phoebus Levene (1869-1940), American biochemist
- Phoebus of Lusignan (15th century), Marshal of Armenia
People with the surname Phoebus:
- Gaston Phoebus (14th century), 11th count of Foix
- Harrison Phoebus (19th century), American entrepreneur
- Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus (17th century), Polish rabbi
- Tom Phoebus (born 1942), starting pitcher in Major League Baseball
Phoebus is a lichenized genus of fungus in the family Roccellaceae. It contains only one species, Phoebus hydrophobius, found in the Ozarks of the central United States, and described as new to science in 2007.
Usage examples of "phoebus".
PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS I When by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who the steer had yoked, Who: and what a track showed the upturned sod!
But, lady, this fair face and heavenly hue Must grace his bed that conquers Asia, And means to be a terror to the world, Measuring the limits of his empery By east and west, as Phoebus doth his course.
That Phoebus, which that shone so clear and bright, Degrees was five-and-forty clomb on height.
And now faire Phoebus gan decline in hastHis weary wagon to the Westerne vale,Whenas they spide a goodly castle, plastForeby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale,Which choosing for that euenings hospitale,They thither marcht: but when they came in sight,And from their sweaty Coursers did auale,They found the gates fast barred long ere night,And euery loup fast lockt, as fearing foes despight.
Eftsoones there was presented to her eyeA comely knight, all arm'd in complete wize,Through whose bright ventayle lifted vp on hyeHis manly face, that did his foes agrize,And friends to termes of gentle truce entize,Lookt foorth, as Phoebus face out of the east,Betwixt two shadie mountaines doth arize.
Begin then, ô my dearest sacred Dame,Daughter of Phoebus and of Memorie,That doest ennoble with immortall nameThe warlike Worthies, from antiquitie,In thy great volume of Eternitie:Begin, ô Clio, and recount from henceMy glorious Soueraines goodly auncestrie,Till that by dew degrees and long pretence,Thou haue it lastly brought vnto her Excellence.
When Phoebus doth his brighte beames spread Right in the white Bull, so it betid* *happened As I shall sing, on Maye's day the thrid, That Pandarus, for all his wise speech, Felt eke his part of Love's shottes keen, That, could he ne'er so well of Love preach, It made yet his hue all day full green.
When Phoebus dwelled here in earth adown, As olde bookes make mentioun, He was the moste lusty* bacheler *pleasant Of all this world, and eke* the best archer.
As when two sunnes appeare in the azure skye,Mounted in Phoebus charet fierie bright,Both darting forth faire beames to each mans eye,And both adorn'd with lampes of flaming light,All that behold so strange prodigious sight,Not knowing natures worke, nor what to weene,Are rapt with wonder, and with rare affright.
Now gan the golden Phoebus for to steepeHis fierie face in billowes of the west,And his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe,Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest,When that infernall Monster, hauing kestHis wearie foe into that liuing well,Can high aduance his broad discoloured brest,Aboue his wonted pitch, with countenance fell,And clapt his yron wings, as victor he did dwell.
And fiery Phoebus riseth up so bright, That all the orient laugheth at the sight, And with his streames* drieth in the greves** *rays **groves The silver droppes, hanging on the leaves.
Not he, whom Greece, the Nourse of all good arts,By Phoebus doome, the wisest thought aliue,Might be compar'd to these by many parts:Nor that sage Pylian syre, which did suruiueThree ages, such as mortall men contriue,By whose aduise old Priams cittie fell,With these in praise of pollicies mote striue.
Wherefore, Lord Phoebus, this request I make- Without this miracle, my heart will break- That at the time of your next opposition, Which will be in the Lion, make petition To her that she so great a flood will bring That full five fathoms shall it over-spring The highest rock in Armoric Brittany.
And with them eke, O Goddesse heauenly bright,Mirrour of grace and Maiestie diuine,Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose lightLike Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine,Shed thy faire beames into my feeble eyne,And raise my thoughts too humble and too vile,To thinke of that true glorious type of thine,The argument of mine afflicted stile:The which to heare, vouchsafe, O dearest dred a-while.
At last the golden Orientall gateOf greatest heauen gan to open faire,And Phoebus fresh, as bridegrome to his mate,Came dauncing forth, shaking his deawie haire:And hurld his glistring beames through gloomy aire.