Ancaeus

Ancaeus

Ancaeus (Ancae´us). A son of Neptune, who left a cup of wine to hunt a wild boar which killed him, and the wine was untasted. This was the origin of the proverb – “There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.”

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