| E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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A beautiful boy of Samos, greatly beloved by Polycr t s the tyrant, and by the poet Anacreon. (See Horace: Epistle xiv. 9.) | 1 |
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To them [i.e. the æsthetic school] the boyhood of Bathyllus is of more moment than the manhood of Napoleon.Mallock: The New Republic, book iv. chap. 1. |
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