Brother-in-law of King Sardanapaʹlus, to whom he entrusts his signet-ring to put down a rebellion headed by Arbaʹces the Mede and Belʹesis, the Chaldean soothsayer. He is slain in a battle with the insurgents. (Byron: Sardanapalus.)
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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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