Hyperʹion

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.”

Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 9.

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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.