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And list to the love of these…
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(Encyclopedia) BoethusBoethusbōēˈthəs [key], fl. 1st half of 2d cent. b.c., Greek sculptor of genre subjects and worker in silver. He was born in Chalcedon and seems to have worked mainly at Rhodes.…
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Anaxagoras, on his death-bed, being asked what honour should be conferred upon him, replied, “Give the boys a holiday.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Give…
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