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To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the Greek Calends was virtually to repudiate them.

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E. Cobham Brewer

E. Cobham Brewer
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Born: May 10, 1810
Died: March 6, 1897 (aged 86)
Bio: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was the compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook.
Known for:
  1. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870)
  2. A Dictionary Of Miracles (1884)

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