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in Chaucer, is the Roman story of Virginius, given by Livy. There is a version of this tale in the Roman de la Rose, vol. ii. p. 74; and another, by Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, book vii.
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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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