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Enʹnius

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The Chaucer or father of Roman poets. (B.C. 239–169.)

The English Ennius. Layamon, who wrote a translation in Saxon of Wace’s Brute.

The French Ennius. Guillaume di Lorris (1235–65), author of the Romance of the Rose, called the Iliad of France. Sometimes Jehan de Meung (1260–1320), who wrote the continuation of the same romance, is so called.

The Spanish Ennius. Juan de Mena, born at Corʹdova. (1412–56.)

 

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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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England Expects that Every Man will do his Duty
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Englentyne
English French
Englishman
Englishman’s Castle
Enid
Enlightened Doctor (The)
Enniskillens
Ennius
Enough. (Anglo-Saxon, genoh or genog.)
Ensconce
Ensemble
Ensign
Ensilage
Entail
Entangle
Entelechy
Enter a House right Foot fore most (Petronius)
Entering Short

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