Brewer's: Diomedes

or Diomed. King of Ætolia, in Greece, brave and obedient to authority. He survived the siege of Troy; but on his return home found his wife living in adultery, and saved his life by living an exile in Italy. (Homer: Iliad.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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