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Paean

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Paean (pē`ən), Paean was an epithet for Apollo, the healer. The paean, a hymn of praise to Apollo and often to other gods, was sung as a prayer for safety or deliverance at battles and other important occasions.
Paean
physician to the gods. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 29]
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No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days
`Unless Phoebus Apollo should save him from death, or Paean himself who knows the remedies for all things.
This quickly took us out of range of Red-Eye, and the last we saw of him was far out on a point of land, where he was jumping up and down and chanting a paean of victory.
 
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