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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Letter of Pythagoras

(The). The Greek upsilon,

“They placed themselves in the order and figure of , the letter of Pythagoras, as cranes do in their flight.” —Rabelais; Pantagruel, iv. 33.

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