/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Blue-eyed Maid (The)
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Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, is so called by Homer.
“Now Prudence gently pulled the poet’s ear,
And thus the daughter of the Blue-eyed Maid,
In flattery’s soothing sounds, divinely said,
‘O Peter, eldest-born of Phœbus, hear.ʹ”
Peter Pindar: A Falling Minister.
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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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