Brewer's: Alcimedon

A generic name for a first-rate carver in wood.

Pocula ponam Fagina, coelatum divini opus Alcimedontis.

Virgil:Eclogue, iii.36.

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