seven sages

in a sentence

seven sages of Greece

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  The pithy sayings ascribed to each of the seven sages is thought to have been ascribed well after their time.

  seven sages = seven wise men of ancient Greece
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  In fact, if that convenient vehicle had existed in the days of the Seven Sages, one of them would doubtless have remarked, that you can know little of women by following them about in their pony-phaetons.†  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
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  The seven sages laid the foundations.†  (source) Author Unknown, The Epic of Gilgamesh, -1750 B.C.