Brewer's: Emperor of the Mountains

king of the woods, and lord of the highways from Florence to Naples. A title assumed by Peter the Calabrian, a famous bandit-chief (1812).

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