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Holofernes

noun
1.
(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith.





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"Holofernes" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pretty Polly. The story is widely circulated, appearing in the folk-songs of nearly all the nations of northern and southern Europe. It has been suggested that the popular legend may be "a wild shoot from the story of Judith and Holofernes." Dowie, doleful. ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... grammar-school at Stratford opening its doors free to the son of John Shakespeare, burgess and alderman, the opportunity was grasped by that struggling but ambitious person. Nor is it doubted that there, under some Holofernes or Sir Hugh Evans, the boy learned his Lyly's grammar, and read his share of Latin authors—his Terence, Ovid, and Seneca, together with Baptista "the old Mantuan." In French he assuredly did more than ...
— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker


Words linked to "Holofernes" :   full general, general, Apocrypha


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