Brewer's: O'roondates

Only son of a Scythian king, whose love for Statira (widow of Alexander the Great, and daughter of Darius) leads him into numerous dangers and difficulties, which he surmounts. (La Calprenéde: Cassandra, a romance.)

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