Phrixus: Meaning and Definition of

Phrix•us

Pronunciation: (frik'sus), [key]
— n. Class. Myth.
  1. a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
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