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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Summa Diligentia

On the top of a diligence. “Caesar crossed the Alps `summa diligentia.' ” This is a famous schoolboy joke, and one of the best of the kind.

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