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The wrong man in the wrong place. Olibʹrius was a Roman senator, proclaimed emperor by surprise in 472, but he was wholly unsuited for the office.
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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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