Brewer's: Rimmon

A Syrian god, whose seat was Damascus.

Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile bank Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streaurs.

Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 467.

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