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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
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Alcedonia—days of calm.
        Riley’s Plautus, Vol. II. Page 306, where see an amusing note on this title; quoting Ovid’s Met., Book XI. Line 744.
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Birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
        Milton.—Odes, Hymn on the Nativity.
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