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A Syrian god, whose seat was Damascus.
“Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat
Was fair Damascus, on the fertile bank
Of Abʹbana and Pharphar, lucid streams.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 467.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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