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 Luce.Lucia di Lammermoor. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Luce
 
the full-grown pike, is the Latin luci-us, from the Greek lukos (a wolf), meaning the wolf of fishes.   1
 


 Luce.Lucia di Lammermoor. 

 
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