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Cornelius Tacitus is called Cornelius the Still in the Fardle of Facions, “still” being a translation of the Latin word tacitus.
“Cornelius the Stylle in his firste book of his yerely exploietes called in Latine Ansales . .”—Ch. iii. s. 3 (1555).
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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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