paeon

It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time - a tuppenny coloured one!

Homer illustrated Paeon the god, and the song both of apotropaic thanksgiving or triumph.

In Homer, Paeon was the Greek physician of the gods.

According to Quintilian, the first paeon, was considered particularly suitable at the beginning of a sentence, and the fourth at the end.

Paeon is a name both of Apollo and AEsculapius.

In prosody a paeon (or paean) is a metrical foot used in both poetry and prose.

Hesiod identifies Paeon as an individual deity:

Astronoë then named the youth Paeon 'Healer', restored him to life from the warmth of her body, and changed him into a god.

Her brothers were Aetolus, Epeius and Paeon.

Papilio paeon escomeli (Peru)

Paeon of Amathus, quoted by Theophrastus, who said that the Cypriot goddess could take the shape of a man.

He fled to Athens, along with other of the expelled Neleidae, Alcmaeon and the sons of Paeon.

With the Greek god Poseidon she was the mother of the giant Almops and Paeon (called Edonus in some accounts).

It was from this Paeon that the Attic clan and deme of Paeonidae or Paionidai is supposed to have derived its name.

A cretic (also Cretic, amphimacer and sometimes paeon diagyios) is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long.

Papilio paeon thrason (Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia)

"I thought she was being silly, telling me she had to make spells up for this Paeon, or however he calls himself, because there aren't any other lone dance-mages.

Upstairs, visitors are serenaded by a Chinese-language paeon to Mao Zedong and his second wife, Yang Kaihui.

Hesiod identifies Paeon as a separate god, and in later poetry Paeon is invoked independently as a health god.

Antilochus left behind in Messenia a son Paeon, whose descendants were among the Neleidae expelled from Messenia, by the descendants of Heracles.

Papilio paeon is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia.

His father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon and Epeius to decide by a contest at Olympia as to which of them was to succeed him in his kingdom of Elis.

Paeon of Amathus was an early Hellenistic historian from Amathus on the Island of Cyprus, mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and the lexicographer Hesychius of Alexandria.

He is presumably the same as the Paeon mentioned in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica as the father by Cleomede of Laophoon, a companion of Asteropaios slain by Meriones.

Only five years ago, RuPaul's pop paeon "Supermodel" was at the top of the charts and the singer George Michael's videos featured famous models lip-synching the lyrics to his music as they crawled across concrete floors.