Cry Cavē (To)
.To ask mercy; to throw up the sponge; to confess oneself beaten. (Latin, caveo.) (See Cave In.)
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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.