phaethon
📖 中文释义
- 法厄同
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light,
- or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the
- chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the
- world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter,
- and hurled headlong into the river Po.
- n. A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.