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 Acu tetigisti.Ad Græcas Calendas. (Deferred) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Acutia’tor.
 
A person in the Middle Ages who attended armies and knights to sharpen their instruments of war. (Latin, acuo, to sharpen.)   1
 


 Acu tetigisti.Ad Græcas Calendas. (Deferred) 

 
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