Brewer's: Eumnestes

[Memory ], who, being very old, keeps a little boy named Anamnestes [Research ] to fetch books from the shelves. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii. 9.)

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

Related Content