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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Anger.
 
Athenodo’rus, the Stoic, told Augustus the best way to restrain unruly anger was to repeat the alphabet before giving way to it. (See DANDER.)   1
       
“The sacred line he did but once repeat,
And laid the storm, and cooled the raging heat.”
       
Tickell: The Horn Book.
 


 Angelus (The).Angevin, 

 
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