1894 Brewer’s / A / Arcades Ambo [Arcădes 3 syl.]
both sweet innocents or simpletons, both Verdant Greens. From Virgil’s Eclogue, vii. v. 4. (See below, Arcadian Youth.) Byron’s translation was “blackguards both.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.