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 Translation for 'Phaon' from English to Polish
NOUN   Phaon | -
mitol.
Faon {m}
Phaon
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Translation for 'Phaon' from English to Polish

Phaon
Faon {m}mitol.
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Usage Examples English
  • Phaon, Glycère and the conspirators bid farewell to their country.
  • MacKaye also acted, touring with the Castle Square theater company of Winthrop Ames and appearing in her brother's "Sappho and Phaon" and "Jeanne D'Arc" (both 1907) and "Mater" (1908).
  • "Phyciodes phaon", the Phaon crescent or mat plant crescent, is a species of butterfly found in Florida, neighboring states, west to New Mexico and south to Cuba (since the 1930s) and the Cayman Islands where it is known as the crescent spot.
  • Neophytus was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero. He was one of the four companions on the emperor's late journey in June 68, with Epaphroditus, Phaon and Sporus, and was with him at his death.
  • A translation by Scrope of the epistle of Sappho to Phaon was inserted in "Ovid's Epistles translated by Various Hands", numerous editions of which were issued between 1681 and 1725, and it was reprinted in Nichols's "Collection of Poems".

  • A few scholars have attempted to argue that the problematic letter from Sappho to Phaon in the "Heroïdes", the authenticity of which as a work by Ovid has often been doubted, was another of Sabino's efforts.
  • Sappho is shown sitting in a chair at the foot of a bed in a classically decorated room with columns, a marble floor and a view to a rural landscape outside (with Venus's birds, doves, sitting on the doorstep). Phaon stands behind the chair holding a spear and bow.
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