Chapter Malt ... Meal to Man of Brass of M by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

says if Sir Guyon will serve him he shall be the richest man in the world; but the knight says money has no charm for him. Mammon then takes him to his smithy, and tells him he may make what orders he likes, but Guyon declines to make any. The god then offers to give him Philotine to wife, but Guyon will not accept the honour. Lastly, he takes him to Proserpine's bower, and tells him to pluck the golden fruit, and rest on the silver stool; Sir Guyon again refuses, and after three days' sojourn in the infernal regions is led back to earth. (ii. 7.)

Mammon of Unrighteousness (The). Money. A Scripture phrase (Luke xvi. 9). Mammon was the Syrian god of wealth, similar to Plutus of Greek and Roman mythology.

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.)

Mammoth Cave (The). In Edmonson county, Kentucky, the largest in the world.

Man (Isle of), called by the ancient Britons main-au (little island), Latinised into Menav -ia. Caesar calls it Mona (i.e. Mon-ah), the Scotch pronunciation of Manau. Mona and Pliny's Monabia are varieties of “Menavia.”

Man Emblematic of St. Matthew, because he begins his gospel by tracing the manhood of Jesus back to David. Mark is symbolised by a lion, because he begins his gospel with John the Baptist and Jesus in the wilderness. Luke is symbolised by a calf, because he begins his gospel with the Temple sacrifices.And John as a eagle, because he looks right into heaven and begins his gospel with Jesus the divine logos. The four are indicated in Ezekiel's cherub (i. 10.)
   Man. Average weight 150 lbs.; height, 69 inches; strength, 420 lbs.

Man Friday (A). A useful and faithful servant, like the Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe.

“Count von Rechberg ... was Prince Bismarck's `Man Friday.' ”- Athenoeum, 1881.

Man-jack Every man-jack of you. Everyone of you. (See under Jack.)

Man ... Monkey The Bodouins affirm that the monkeys of Mount Kara were once human beings, thus transformed for disobedience to their prophet. The Arabs have a similar tradition, that the monkey (Nasnâs) and the ape (Wabâr.) were once human beings.

Man-Mountain or Quinbus Flestrin. So Gulliver was called Lilliput.

Man Proposes but God disposes: So we read in the Imitatio Christi; Herbert (Jacula Prudentum) has nearly the same identical words.

Man Threefold According to Diogenes Laertius, the body was composed of (1) a mortal part; (2) a divine and ethereal part, called the phren; and (3) an aërial and vaporous part, called the thumos.
   According to the Romans, man has a threefold soul, which at the dissolution of the body resolves itself into (1) the Manes; (2) the Anima or Spirit; (3) the Umbra. The Manes went either to Elysium or Tartarus; the Anima returned to the gods; but the Umbra hovered about the body as unwilling to quit it.
   According to the Jews, man consists of body, soul, and spirit.

Man in Black (The). Supposed to be Goldsmith's father. (Citizen of the World.) Washington Irving has a tale with the same title.

Man in the Iron Mask (The). (See Iron Mask .)

Man in the Moon (The). Some say it is a man leaning on a fork, on which he is carrying a bundle of sticks picked up on a Sunday. The origin of this fable is from Num. xv. 32-36. Some add a dog also; thus the prologue in Midsummer Night's Dream says, “This man with lantern, dog, and bush of thorns presenteth