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king of the woods, and lord of the highways from Florence to Naples. A title assumed by Peter the Calabrian, a famous banditchief (1812).
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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.