Lupus in Fabula.

(See above.)

‘Lupus in fabulaʹ answered the abbot, scornfully. ‘The wolf accused the sheep of muddying the stream, when he drank in it above her.ʹ”—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, last chapter.

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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.

Luna
Lunar Month
Lunar Year
Lunatics
Luncheon. (Welsh, llonc or llwnc, a gulp; llyncu, to swallow at a gulp.)
Lungs of London
Lunsford
Lupercal (The)
Lupine
Lupus et Agnus
Lupus in Fabula
Lurch
Lush
Lusiad or The Lusiads
Lusitania
Lusitanian Prince
Lustral Water
Lustrum
Lusus
Lusus Naturæ
Lutestring