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“Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deipnosophists. viii. 19.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2edf38708dc81062b90e8e0a6d0de74fd696e88a4d6cd0f355853f90ef111f6c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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