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A churlish philosopher, in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.
“The cynicism of Apemantus contrasted with the misanthropy of Timon,”—Sir Walter Scott.
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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.