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called The Yellow Tiber, because it is discoloured with yellow mud.
“Verticlbus rapʹidis, et multa flavus areʹna.”
Virgil: Æneid, vii. 31.
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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.