Brewer's: Arcades Ambo

[Arcades 3 syl.], both sweet innocents or simpletons, both Verdant Greens. From Virgil's Eclogue, vii. v. 4. ( See below , Arcadian Youth.) Byron's translation was “blackguards both.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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