or Eumæus. A swineherd. So called from the slave and swineherd of Ulysses.
“This second Eumæus strode hastily down the forest glade, driying before him … the whole herd of his inharmonious charge.”—Sir Walter Scott.
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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.