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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

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The old Scotch form of the Roman Pluto, by which Satan is meant. Chaucer calls Plato the “king of Faërie,” and Dunbar names him “Pluto the elrich incubus.”

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