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is represented as an old man, clothed with palm-leaves, and seated under a palm-tree, near which are a river and loaf of bread.
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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.