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Hyperʹion

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Properly, the father of the Sun and Moon, but by poets made a surname of the Sun. Shakespeare makes it a synonym of Apollo. The proper pronunciation is Hyperiʹon. Thus Ovid

“Placat equo Persis radiis Hyperiŏne cinctum.”


Fasti, i. 385.


“So excellent a king, that was to this

Hyperʹion to a satyr.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Hyksos
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Hymen
Hymer
Hymettus
Hymn Tunes
Hymnus Eucharisticus
Hyperboreans
Hyperion
Hypermnestra
Hypnotism
Hypochondria
Hypocrisy
Hypocrite
Hypocrites Isle
Hypostatic Union
Hypped [hipt]
Hyson
Hyssop
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