For know that we mariners of Phæacia need no pilots nor rudders, but our ships by their own instinct take us to whatsoever place we would visit, gliding like phantoms, invisible, swift as thought.
Very choice was the fabric woven in that chamber, for the women of Phæacia were famed beyond all others for their skill in weaving, even as the men surpassed all the world in seamanship.
He sees Phæacia nigh, where he must leap The bound'ry of his woes; but ere that hour Arrive, I will ensure him many a groan.
For I have here arrived, after long toil, And from a country far remote, a guest To all who in Phæacia dwell, unknown.
Phæacia hangs doubtfully upon his horizon, and it is probable that he had only a very general and vague idea of its position.
Phæacia is, in the Odyssey, the geographical middle term between the discovered and the undiscovered world; Ogygia is the stage beyond it, and the stage on this side of it is Ithaca.
In general, we have in this Book the grand transition from Phæacia to Ithaca, in both of its phases, physical and spiritual.
In the present Book, however, is another strand; besides these songs of the bard belonging to the past are the doings in Phæacia belonging to the present, which doings have a connection and a correspondence with the songs.
Still further, Phæacia can begin to mirror itself in art, as it does here in the songs of the bard, and also in games.
It is inconsistent and deeply discordant with the ethical tone of Phæacia already given.
The physical transition from Phæacia to Ithaca is accomplished; while Ulysses is asleep, the poet casts a glance backward at the marvelous ship and at the marvelous land which has just been left behind.
In general, Phæacia is now seen as an art-world, in true correspondence with Hellas, of which it is a kind of ideal prototype.
Phæacia is the simple condition of peace; man is in complete harmony with himself and his institutional environment.
Has not the poet derived the noble Arete and Alcinous and institutional Phæacia from the savage Cyclops?
Fourth is the storm at sea, with the clinging to the mast, and the landing upon the coast of the Thesprotians, all of which is a transcript of the experience of Ulysses in getting to Phæacia from Calypso's isle.
On this account she represents the place of Phæacia in the Greek world as well as in the present poem; perhaps we ought to add, in the whole movement of civilization.
In the mythical history of Phæacia which is also here given, we can observe the same development suggested with greater distinctness.
Seventeen days he held his course, and on the eighteenth the coast of Phæacia was in sight.
The best of all Phæacia woo thy grace, Where thou wert bred, and ow’st thyself a race.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
