E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Medam’othi (Greek, never in any place).
The island at which the fleet of Pantagruel landed on the fourth day of their voyage, and where they bought many choice curiosities, such as the picture of a man’s voice, echo drawn to life, Plato’s ideas, the atoms of Epicu’ros, a sample of Philome’la’s needlework, and other objects of vertu which could be obtained in no other portion of the globe. (Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 3.)
