Phœbus

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 132

Phœbus (i.e. 'the Bright'), an epithet, and subsequently a name, of Apollo. It had reference both to the youthful beauty of the god and to the radiance of the sun, when, latterly, Apollo became identified with Helios, the sun-god.

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