Christopher Columbus. Spain is called “Ibēria,” and the Spaniards the “Ibēri.” The river Ebro is a corrupt form of the Latin Ibērus.
“Launched with Iberia’s pilot from the steep,
To worlds unknown, and isles beyond the deep.”
Campbell: The Pleasures of Hope. ii.
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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.
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