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 Mile’sian Fables.Mile’sians (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Milesian Story or Tale (A).
 
One very wanton and ludicrous. So called from the Milesiœ Fa&bacute;ulœ, the immoral tendency of which was notorious. (See above.)   1
 


 Mile’sian Fables.Mile’sians (The). 

 
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