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Phoebé

（Φοίβη).

1.

A special name of Artemis as moon-goddess. See Artemis; Selené.

2.

The daughter of Uranus and Gaea, and mother by Coeus of Asteria and Leto (Theog. 136, 404).

3.

A sister of Clytaemnestra (Ovid, Heroid. viii. 77).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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