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 Ari’on.Ariste’as. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Arios’to
 
was privately married to Alessandra Benucci, widow of Tito Strozzi; she is generally called his mistress.   1
   Ariosto of the North. So Lord Byron calls Sir Walter Scott. (Childe Harold, iv. 40.)   2
 


 Ari’on.Ariste’as. 

 
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