Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Bath’sheba.

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Bathos [Greek, bathos, depth].

Bathyllus.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Bath’sheba.

The Duchess of Portsmouth, a favourite court lady of Charles II. The allusion is to the wife of Uri’ah the Hittite, criminally beloved by David (2 Sam. xi.). The Duke of Monmouth says:

“My father, whom with reverence yet I name,

Charmed into ease, is careless of his fame;

And, bribed with petty sums of foreign gold,

Is grown in Bathsheba’s embraces old.”

Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, i. 707–10.

Bathos [Greek, bathos, depth].

Bathyllus.

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