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The overking of the ancient Etruscans, like the Welsh “pendragon.” A satrap, or under-king, was a lucŭmo. Thus the king of Prussia is the German lars, and the king of Bavaria is a lucumo.
“There be thirty chosen prophets,
The wisest of the land,
Who always by Lars Porʹsena,
Both morn and evening stand.”
Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome, (Horatius, ix.)
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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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