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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hellenists

Those Jews who used the Greek or Hellenic language. (All these four words are derived from Hellas, in Thessaly, the cradle of the race.)

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

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