E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Zimri,
in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, is the second Duke of Buckingham. Like the captain who conspired against Asa, King of Judah, he “formed parties and joined factions,” but pending the issue “he was drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house.” (1 Kings xvi. 9.)
