Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Ascodrogites

(4 syl.).

Certain heretics who said “they were vessels full of new wine” (Greek, askos). By new wine they meant the Gospel. (Matthew ix. 17.)

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