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“In the sweat of another’s brow.” He alludes to the words of Genesis iii. 19: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.”

Planter of sugar-canes.

“Wills and childless persons were caught by him, as though with a hunting-net.”—Tacit. Ann. xiii. 42.

“Pythoness,” used in the sense of witch. He alludes to the witch of Endor, and the words in Samuel xxviii. 19. He is, however, mistaken in attributing these words to the witch: it was the spirit of Samuel that said, “To-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me.”

He was king of Samos, and was treacherously put to death by Orœtes, the governor of Magnesia, in Asia Minor. His daughter, in consequence of her dream, attempted to dissuade him from visiting Orœtes, but in vain.—Herod. iii. 124.

Plut. Vit. Alex. 2.

“Thou shalt see me again at Philippi.”—Appian Bell. Civ. iv. 134.

“Thou, also, Galba, shalt taste of empire.”—Suet. Vit. Gall. 4.