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Phileʹmon and Baucis

entertained Jupiter and Mercury when everyone else refused them hospitality. Being asked to make a request, they begged that they might both die at the same time. When they were very old, Philemon was changed into an oak, and Baucis into a linden tree. (Ovid: Metamorphoses, iii. 631, etc.)

 

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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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Pheasant
Phebe
Phelis
Phenomenon (plural, phenomena)
Phidias
Phigalian Marbles
Philadelphia Stones
Philander (in Orlando Furioso)
Philandering
Philanthropist (The)
Philemon and Baucis
Philip
Philip Nye (in Hudibras)
Philip Quarl
Philippe Egalité
Philippic
Philippins
Philips (John)
Philisides
Philistines
Philistines

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Philemon and Baucis