Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Adonais

Adona′is
(4 syl.).

The song about Adonis; Shelley's elegy on Keats is so called. See Bion's Lament for Adonis.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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