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The Eretrian bull. Menedeʹmos of Eretʹria, in Eubœa; a Greet philosopher of the fourth century B.C. and founder of the Eretrian school which was a branch of the Socratʹie. He was called a “bull” from the bull-like gravity of his face.
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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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