Brewer's: Anachronism

An event placed at a wrong date; as when Shakespeare, in Troilus and Cressida, makes Nestor quote Aristotle. (Greek, ana chronos, out of time.)

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