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Phaethon \Pha"["e]*thon\, n. [L., Pha["e]thon (in sense 1), fr.
Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, to shine. See {Phantom}.]
1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Helios (Ph[oe]bus), 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.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic
birds.