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Hispaʹnia

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Spain. So called from the Punic word Span (a rabbit), on account of the vast number of rabbits which the Carthaginians found in the peninsula. Others derive it from the Basque Expana (a border).

 

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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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Hippocrates Sleeve
Hippocrene
Hippogriff
Hippolyta
Hippolytos
Hippolytus
Hippomenes
Hippothadee
Hired Grief
Hiren
Hispania
Historicus
History
History of Croyland Abbey
Histrionic
Hit
Hit it Off (To)
Hit the Nail on the Head (To)
Hitch
Hivites
Hoâng

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Hispania