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Brewer's: Lusus
The sons or race of Lusus. Pliny (iii. 1) tells us that Lusus was the companion of Bacchus in his travels, and settled a colony in Portugal; whence the country was termed Lusitania, and the inhabitants Lusians.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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