Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: feral
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
or Grissel. Octavia, wife of Marc Antony and sister of Augustus Caesar, is called the “patient Grizel” of Roman story. (See Grisilda.)
“For patience she will prove a second Grissel.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
 Related Content
|