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Lucian

The impersonation of the follies and, vices of the age, metamorphosed into an ass. The chief character in the Golden Ass of Apuleius.

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

Lucia Di Lammermoor

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