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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Idom’eneus (4 syl.).
 
King of Crete, and ally of the Greeks in the siege of Troy. After the city was burnt he made a vow to sacrifice whatever he first encountered, if the gods granted him a safe return to his kingdom. It was his own son that he first met, and when he offered him up to fulfil his vow he was banished from Crete as a murderer. (Homer: Iliad.)   1
   Compare the story of Jephthah in Judges xi.   2
 


 Idol Shepherd (The),Idun’a or Idun’. 

 
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