Brewer's: Legislator

or Solon of Parnassus. Boileau was so called by Voltaire, because of his Art of Poetry, a production unequalled in the whole range of didactic poetry. (1636-1711.)

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