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... century and that he was a slave , and Plutarch in the 1st century AD made him adviser to Croesus , the 6th- century - BC king of Lydia . One tradition holds that he came from Thrace , while a later one styles him a Phrygian . An ...
... century and that he was a slave , and Plutarch in the 1st century AD made him adviser to Croesus , the 6th- century - BC king of Lydia . One tradition holds that he came from Thrace , while a later one styles him a Phrygian . An ...
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... century , the latest to that of Henry IV in the early 15th cen- tury . The alienation toward France during the Hundred Years ' War started an increasing use of English , the last strongholds of a French dialect being Parliament and the ...
... century , the latest to that of Henry IV in the early 15th cen- tury . The alienation toward France during the Hundred Years ' War started an increasing use of English , the last strongholds of a French dialect being Parliament and the ...
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... century col- lection of folktales . An Anglo - Saxon transla- tion ( the first English vernacular version ) was made in the 11th century , and the poet John Gower used the tale as an example of the seventh deadly sin ( Sloth ) in his ...
... century col- lection of folktales . An Anglo - Saxon transla- tion ( the first English vernacular version ) was made in the 11th century , and the poet John Gower used the tale as an example of the seventh deadly sin ( Sloth ) in his ...
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