Brewer's: Eumæ'os

or Eumæus. A swineherd. So called from the slave and swineherd of Ulysses.

“This second Eumæus strode hastily down the forest glade, driving before him ... the whole herd of his inharmonious charge.” —Sir Walter Scott.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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