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The Golden (“Auraʹtus”). So Jeau Dorat, one of the Pleiad poets of France, was called by a pun on his name. This pun may perhaps pass muster; not so the preposterous title given to him of “The French Pindar.” (1507–1588.)

Golden-tongued (Greek, Chrysolʹogos). So St. Peter, Bishop of Ravenna, was called. (433–450.)

The golden section of a line. Its division into two such parts that the rectangle contained by the smaller segment and the whole line equals the square on the larger segment. (Euclid, ii. 11.)

 

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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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