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Augusta

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London; so called by the Romans.

“Oft let me wander oʹer the dewy fields,

… … . . or ascend

Some eminence, Augusta, in thy plains,

And see the country far diffused around.”

Thomson: Spring, 102, 107–9.

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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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