Brewer's: Mammon's Cave

The abode of the Money-god. Sir Guyon visited this cave, and Spenser gives a very full description of it. (Faërie Queéne, ii. 7.)

Sir Epicure Mammon.
A worldly sensualist. (Ben Jonson: Alchemist.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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