Bacʹtrian Sage.

Zoroaster, a native of Bactria (Balkh), about 500 years before the birth of Christ.

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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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Bactrian Sage
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