who, being very old, keeps a little boy named Anamnestēs [Research] to fetch books from the shelves. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii. 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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