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Fons et Origo (Latin)

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The primary cause. Fax et focus, the instigator, as Juno was the fax et focus of the Trojan war.

 

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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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Folio
Folk
Folk
Folk-lore
Folk-mote [a folk meeting]
Follets
Follow
Follower
Folly
Fond
Fons et Origo (Latin)
Font
Fontarabia
Food
Food for Powder
Foods and Wines
Fool
Fool [a food]
Fool Thinks
Fool in his Sleeve
Fool or Physician at Forty