Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Io’ta

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Iormungan’dur.

Iphicles’ Oxen.

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

Io’ta

or Jot: A very little, the least quantity possible. The iöta [i] is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet, called the Lacedemonian letter. (Hebrew, Yod [\??\] the smallest Hebrew letter.)

“This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood.”

Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1.

Iormungan’dur.

Iphicles’ Oxen.

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