Cimmerʹian Darkness
. Homer (possibly from some story as to the Arctic night) supposes the Cimmerians to dwell in a land “beyond the ocean-stream,” where the sun never shone. (Odys., xi. 14.)
“In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.