Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.555
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.555
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“These Medes were called anciently by all people Arians, but when Medea, the Colchian, came to them from Athens, they changed their name.”—*Herodot.*, vii. 62 (Rawlins).