A generic name for a first-rate carver in wood.
“Pocula ponam
Fagina, cœlātum divini opus Alcimedontis.”
Virgil: Eclogue, iii. 36.
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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.