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Ismeʹno (in Jerusalem Delivered)

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A magician who could “call spirits from the vasty deep.” He was once a Christian, but became Mahometan. Ismeno was killed by a stone hurled at him by an engine (book xviii.).

 

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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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Island of the Seven Cities
Islands of the Blessed
Isle of Dogs
Isle of Lanterns (The)
Isle of Mist (The)
Islington (The Marquis of)
Ismaelians
Ismenē
Ismenias
Ismeno (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Isobars
Isocratēs
Isolde
Isothermal Lines
Israel
Israfil
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