Brewer's: Monimia

in Otway's tragedy of The Orphan. Sir Walter Scott says, “More tears have been shed for the sorrows of Monimia, than for those of Juliet and Desdemona.”

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