Brewer's: Apollyon

King of the bottomless pit. (Rev. ix. 11.) His contest with Christian, in Bunyan's allegory, has made his name familiar. (Greek, the destroyer.)

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