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An annual register in Latin for European circulation, first published in 1598.
“It is believed,
And told for news with as much diligence
As if ’twere writ in Gallo-Belgicus.”
Thomas May: The Heir. (1615.)
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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.