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Zenobius

(117—138), Greek sophist

He is either dead or teaching school.

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[come to a dead end] {v. phr.} To reach a point from which one cannot proceed further, either because of a physical obstacle or because of some forbidding circumstance. * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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