/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · Augusta
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London; so called by the Romans.
“Oft let me wander oʹer the dewy fields,
… … . . or ascend
Some eminence, Augusta, in thy plains,
And see the country far diffused around.”
Thomson: Spring, 102, 107–9.
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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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