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in Greece, murdered Nicʹoclēs, the tyrant, in order to restore his country to liberty, and would not allow even a picture of a king to exist. He was poisoned by Philip of Macedon.
“Aratus, who awhile relumed the soul
Of fondly-lingering liberty in Greece.”
Thomson: Winter, 491, 492.
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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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