Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Apollo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Apollo \A*pol"lo\, n. [L. Apollo, -linis, Gr. ?.] (Classic
Myth.)
A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light
and day (the ``sun god''), of archery, prophecy, medicine,
poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of
manly grace and beauty; -- called also {Ph['e]bus}.
{The Apollo Belvedere}, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the
Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed
of the noblest representations of the human frame.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Apollo
n : Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and
healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
[syn: {Apollo}, {Phoebus}, {Phoebus Apollo}]
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