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- proper noun The Christian
devil ;Satan - proper noun A name given to
Herodotus because of his controversial works
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It is still going to take a lot of work to dislodge the public notion that the Father of History was, if not quite the Father of Lies, at any rate a simple-minded traditional storyteller, imaginative but credulous, who needed the stern corrections of Thucydides to put him straight.
The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008
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"The Lord and the Holy Virgin may send the bullets to kill you, unless it's from the Boers who is guided by the Father of Lies; but it's small thanks in return they will be asking.
On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905
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