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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Apollo \A*pol"lo\, n. [L. Apollo, -linis, Gr ?.] (Classic Myth.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the ``sun god''), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also {Ph['e]bus}. {The Apollo Belvedere}, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.
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