Brewer's: Seremenes

(4 syl.). Brother-in-law of King Sardanapalus, to whom he entrusts his signet-ring to put down a rebellion headed by Arbaces the Mede and Belesis, the Chaldean soothsayer. He is slain in a battle with the insurgents. (Byron: Sardanapalus.)

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