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 Aras’pes (in Jerusalem Delivered),Arba’ces (3 syl.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Ara’tos of Achæa,
 
in Greece, murdered Nic’ocls, the tyrant, in order to restore his country to liberty, and would not allow even a picture of a king to exist. He was poisoned by Philip of Macedon.   1
       
“Aratus, who awhile relumed the soul
Of fondly-lingering liberty in Greece.”
       
Thomson: Winter, 491, 492.
 


 Aras’pes (in Jerusalem Delivered),Arba’ces (3 syl.). 

 
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