| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44629 |
| QUOTATION: | They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep]. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Plutarch (46120), Greek essayist, biographer. Marcellus, Lives, trans. by John Dryden. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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