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 Phébus.
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.
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