E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Patmos (My).
My solitude, my place of banishment from society, my out-of-the-way home. As “Good-b’ye, I must go to my Patmos.” The allusion, of course, is to the banishment of St. John to the island of Patmos, in the reign of Domitian.
