/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Lycaonian Tables [Lycaoniæmensæ]
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Execrable food. Lycaʹon, desirous of testing the divine knowledge of Jove, who had honoured him with a visit, served up human flesh on his table; for which the god changed him into a wolf.
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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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