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or Sage. Hesiod, the Greek didactic poet, born at Ascra, in Bœotia. Virgil calls him the “Old Ascræon.” (Eclogues, vii. 70.)
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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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