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Baucis
[ baw-sis ]
noun
, Classical Mythology.
- an aged Phrygian peasant woman who, with her husband Philemon, offered hospitality to the disguised Zeus and Hermes: they were rewarded by being saved from a flood and changed into trees.
Baucis
/ ˈbɔːsɪs /
noun
- Greek myth a poor peasant woman who, with her husband Philemon, was rewarded for hospitality to the disguised gods Zeus and Hermes
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Philemon bends above old Baucis at the High School gate, though hitherto they have been sycamores.
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Its character may be compared to the honey with which the author crowns the miraculous hoard of Baucis and Philemon.
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Baucis and Philemon entertain the gods, who convert their hut into a Temple.
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Baucis, do you go and fill a bowl with snow-water and wet a handkerchief—I will lay it on his forehead, and that will cool him.
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To carry you, sweet Claudia, is indeed a pleasure—but me, wrinkled old Baucis!
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