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Eloquent

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The old man eloquent. Isocʹratēs, the Greek orator. When he heard that Grecian liberty was extinguished by the battle of Chæroneʹa, he died of grief.        

That dishonest victory


At Chæronea, fatal to liberty,

Killed with report that old man eloquent.”


Milton: Sonnets (To Lady Margaret Ley).

1

The eloquent doctor. Peter Aureʹolus, Archbishop of Aix, a schoolman.

 

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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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Ell (Anglo-Saxon eln, an ell)
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Ella, or Alla
Elliot
Ellyllon
Elmo’s Fire (St.)
Elohim
Elohistic and Jehovistic Scriptures
Eloi (St.)
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Elsie
Elves
Elvidna
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Elvira (Donna)
Elvish or Elfish
Elysium
Elzevir
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