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Paean

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Paean

In Greek mythology, the physician of the gods. Later Greek writers use Paean as a title for Apollo as a deliverer from evil. The word ‘paean’ came to mean a genre of songs in Apollo's honour, and ultimately any battle, victory, or festive song.



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No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
`Unless Phoebus Apollo should save him from death, or Paean himself who knows the remedies for all things.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
This quickly took us out of range of Red-Eye, and the last we saw of him was far out on a point of land, where he was jumping up and down and chanting a paean of victory.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
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