Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Divine Pagan

(The). Hypatia, who presided over the Neoplatonic School at Alexandria. She was infamously torn to pieces (A.D. 415) by a Christian mob, not without the concurrence of the Archbishop Cyril.

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