baucis in a sentence

1. Finally an old couple, Philemon and Baucis, offered them a meal.

2. Philemon and Baucis want nothing more than to worship the two gods for life.

3. From "Philemon und Baucis", Compositions for the opera fragment by Joseph Haydn.

4. Philemon and Baucis is the story of an old couple who gets a visit from two strangers one day.

5. Zeus and Hermes ask whether Philemon and Baucis have a wish they can fulfill as thanks for their hospitality.

6. As the restoration has shown, Rubens changed the painting several times and only added the story of Philemon and Baucis at the end.

7. Philemon and Baucis also wanted nothing more than to stay together, and if the hour struck that one of them would die, the other could go.

8. This includes the chance to see the captivating painting Philemon and Baucis – on-loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, USA – in Britain for the first time.