The robes, wrought gold, and all the other gifts To this our guest, by the Phæacian Chiefs Brought hither in the sumptuous coffer lie.
Fear not a losing game; Phæacian none Will reach thy measure, much less overcast.
But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn, Blush'd in the East, then from his bed arose The sacred might of the Phæacian King.
Ulysses with delight that song, and all The maritime Phæacian concourse heard.
Phæacian Chiefs and Senators, I speak The dictates of my mind, therefore attend!
In like manner he wishes domestic joy to the king, as this whole Phæacian world partakes more of the Family than of the State.
The external side of this Phæacian world is shown in the city, garden, and palace of the king; nature is transformed and made beautiful for man.
In a certain sense we may connect these Phæacian works with Pallas, who has directed Ulysses hither; they are the works of intelligence.
The poet introduces his mythical forms; we hear also the fabulous genealogy of the Phæacian rulers, the meaning of which has been above set forth.
Still this Phæacian enjoyment is innocent enough; not ascetic is the trait, yet not sensual; to-day good people usually eat and drink without the song of bard or other spiritual entertainment accompanying the material one of gustation.
As long as the Phæacian spell is upon him, he can do nought but slumber.
Weaving is specially emphasized along with navigation, one being the Phæacian woman's and the other being the Phæacian man's most skillful work.
The internal side of this Phæacian world, its spiritual essence, is shown in the domestic and civil life of the rulers and nobles; of this also Ulysses is the spectator, recognizing and appropriating.
They were covered with costly mats, and the Phæacian leaders were wont to sit there and enjoy themselves.
Zeus listened to his complaint and gave him authority to destroy the Phæacian boat and its crew.
Then Odysseus said to Alkinoös: "Truly, no one excels the Phæacian princes in dancing.
Having said this, Odysseus seized a much larger and heavier quoit than the Phæacian prince could use, and swinging it in his powerful hand he hurled it forth.
Sometimes this was done by servants; thus it was managed for Telemachus and Pisistratus in the palace of Menelaus, and for Ulysses in that of the Phæacian king.
By offerings, his menaced destruction of the Phæacian city seems to be averted.
Still it cannot be denied that levity and vanity are rather conspicuous in the Phæacian men.
Better it were if she found a husband from abroad, since, forsooth, she looks down upon her Phæacian suitors, though they are many and noble.
On the eighteenth day he joyfully hailed the distant outline of the Phæacian coast, and began to look forward hopefully to temporary rest and shelter.
The goddess, who had meanwhile revealed her identity to Odysseus, now assisted him to conceal in a neighbouring cave the valuable gifts of the Phæacian king.
By the direction of king Alcinous rich furs had been laid on deck for the comfort of his guest, on which the hero, leaving the guidance of the ship to the Phæacian sailors, soon fell into a deep sleep.
The Phæacian games and banquet in honour of Ulysses.
But it is not likely that Thucydides was unaware of the Sicilian claim not only to the Phæacian episode, but to the entire poem, for as late as 430 B.
This the writer of the Odyssey is not doing here, though she has intentionally approached it very nearly in a great part of the Phæacian episode.
I grant that no explicit tradition exists to the effect that the Odyssey as a whole was written at or in Corfu, but the Phæacian episode is the eye of the poem.
Ulysses did not give his name, but told her how he had 240 come from Calypso's island, and been wrecked on the Phæacian coast.
Arete packed all the gold and 423 presents which the Phæacian aldermen had sent, as also the shirt and tunic from Alcinous.
All went well with him for seventeen days, and on the 278 eighteenth he caught sight of the faint outlines of the Phæacian coast lying long and low upon the horizon.
Nothing, not even the men lifting him off the ship next morning, laying all his treasures hard by him and going away, can disturb him till the Phæacian sailors are beyond all reach of question.
Then Alcinous told them how Neptune had long ago 171 threatened to do this to some Phæacian ship on its return from giving an escort, and also to bury their city under a high mountain as a punishment for giving escorts so freely.
The land which I am in quest of is Ithaca; in whose ports some ship belonging to your navigation-famed Phæacian state may haply at some time have found a refuge from tempests.
Thus much, that you may not fear to trust yourself in one of our Phæacian ships.
Beneath which the Phæacian princes sate At wine and food, and feasted all the year.
No Phæacian here This bound can either better or come near.
Hear yet now, and deign I may of the Phæacian state obtain Pity, and grace.
Wall-paintings have also been discovered and specimens of a frieze of a bluish colour, supposed to be the kuanos referred to in Homer as adorning the walls of the Phæacian palace.
But the greatest interest of the place arises from the tradition which identifies it with the Phæacian island Scheria, on which Odysseus was cast after his stormy voyage from the island of Calypso.
The Phæacian princes here Were seated; here they ate and drank, and held Perpetual banquet.
Walls of brass supported blue steel cornices, golden doors guarded by gold and silver mastiffs opened into the vast hall, along which were ranged thrones covered with delicately woven mantles, for which the Phæacian women were famous.
As far as the Phæacian race excel In guiding their swift galleys o'er the deep, So far the women in their woven work Surpass all others.
And it is plain that Arete, the queen of Alcinous, was at the Phæacian banquet (Od.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
