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The huge spear of Achilles, which none but the hero could wield; so called because it was cut from an ash growing on Mount Pelʹion, in Thessaly.
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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.