(adjective) : Pāsĭphăē, ēs, and Pāsĭphăa, ae, = Πασιφάη (the All-shining)
* Daughter of Helios, sister of Circe, wife of Minos, and mother of Androgeus, Phoedra, and Ariadne, and also of the Minotaur by a beautiful bull, which Venus, out of hatred, had inspired her with a passion for, Ov. A. A. 1, 295; Cic. N. D. 3, 19, 48; id. Div. 1, 43, 96; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 14; Hyg. Fab. 40: Pasiphaen nivei solatur amore juvenci,Verg. E. 6, 46: Pasiphaae fano, Cic. Div. l. l.: Pasiphaes gener,i.e. Theseus,Ov. Ib. 90.— Hence
* Pāsĭphăēïus, a, um, , Pasiphoean.—In the fem. subst.: Pāsĭ-phaēïa, Phoedra, Ov. M. 15, 500.