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Fifth column

noun

A subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst. Synonym: Trojan horse.

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... following table. The first column gives the number of the song and the second the page in this book; the third column gives the beginning of each song in English; the fourth gives the beginning of each song in Latin. The references in the fifth column are to the little anthology called Gaudeamus (Leipzig, Teubner, 1879); those in the sixth column are to the printed edition of the Benedictbeuern Codex, which goes by the title of Carmina Burana (Stuttgart, auf Kosten das Literarischen Vereins, ...

— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various

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