Brewer's: Posthumus

(Leona'tus). Husband of Imogen. Under the erroneous persuasion of his wife's infidelity, he plots her death, but his plot miscarries. (Shakespeare: Cymbeline.)

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