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Zeuxʹis (2 syl.)

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a Grecian painter, is said to have painted some grapes so well that the birds came and pecked at them.

“Eʹen as poor birds, deceived with painted grapes,

Do surfeit by the eye, and pine the maw.”


Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis.

 

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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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Zelotes
Zem
Zenchis Khan [great chief]
Zend-Avesta
Zenelophon
Zenith, Nadir
Zephon [searcher of secrets]
Zephyr
Zeus
Zeuxis
Zif
Zig
Zig
Zim and Jim
Zimri
Zincali
Zindikites
Zineura
Zion
Zist

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Zeuxis