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Cheroneʹan [ch = k]

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The Cheronean Sage. Plutarch, who was born at Chæroneʹa, in Bœotia (46–120).

“This phrase, O Cheronean sage, is thine.”


Beattie: Minstrel.

 

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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.

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