god
Phoebus
also: Apollo
Phoebus Apollo as sun-god and patron of poetry; here the sun of the turning year and the god of the Palatine library.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.2 the Phoebean maiden's leaf
The laurel, sacred to Phoebus (Apollo) and his beloved Daphne; the triumphing victor wears its leaves on his brow.
- Sorrows §2.1 Phoebus
Phoebus Apollo, to whom hymns were sung at Augustus's Secular Games, 'which one age sees but once.'