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 Philosophy.Philox’enos of Cythra. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Philot’im.
 
The word means lover of honour. The presiding Queen of Hell, and daughter of Mammon. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii.)   1
       
“And fair Philotim, the rightly hight,
The fairest wight that wonneth under sky.”
       
Book ii. canto vii.
 


 Philosophy.Philox’enos of Cythra. 

 
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