Brewer's: Ismeno

(in Jerusalem Delivered). 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.).

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