1894 Brewer’s / M / Mammon’s Cave
The abode of the Money-god. Sir Guyon visited this cave, and Spenser gives a very full description of it. (Faërie Queéne, ii. 7.)
Sir Epicure Mammon. A worldly sensualist. (Ben Jonson: Alchemist.)
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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.