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Muhammad Ali toys with an unsuspecting Oscar De La HoyaAP/Wide World Photos Roy Jones Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya continued to battle it out for the mythical title as pound-for-pound champion.…Brewer's: Mantuan Swain, Swan
or Bard (The). Virgil, a native of Mantua, in Italy. Besides his great Latin epic, he wrote pastorals and Georgics. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Menalcas
Any shepherd or rustic. The name figures in the Eclogues of Virgil and the Idyls of Theocritos. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MenamMenah A B C D E F…Brewer's: Mincio
or Mintio. The birthplace of Virgil. The Clitumnus, a river of Umbria, was the residence of Propertius; the Anio is where Horace had a villa; the river Meles, in Ionia, is the supposed…Brewer's: Indoors
In the house. Virgil makes Dido sit “in forbus divæ.” (Æneid, i. 505.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894InductionIndividualists A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Lucinian
The young prince, son of Dolopatos, the Sicilian monarch, entrusted to the care of Virgil, the philosopher. (See Seven Wise Masters, and Dolopatos.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Lycisca
(half-wolf, half-dog). One of the dogs of Actæon. In Latin it is a common term for a sheperd's dog, and is so used by Virgil (Eclogue iii. 18). (See Dog.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Mæviad
A merciless satire by Gifford on the Della Cruscan school of poetry. Published 1796. The word is in Virgil's Eclogue, iii. 90. (See Baviad.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Cortina
The skin of the serpent Pytho, which covered the tripod of the Pythoness when she delivered her oracles. “Tripodas cortina tegit” ( Prudentius: Apophthegmata, 506); also the tripod itself…Brewer's: Elzevir
An edition of a classic author, published and printed by the family of Elzevir, and said to be immaculate. Virgil, one of the master-pieces, is certainly incorrect in some places. (1592-…Trending
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