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.)
· ·
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.