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Nov 19, 2008
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Ascræan Poet

or Sage. Hesiod, the Greek didactic poet, born at Ascra, in Boeotia. Virgil calls him the “Old Ascræon.” (Eclogues, vii. 70.)

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