Ibe´ria’s Pilot. Christopher Columbus. Spain is called “Iberia” and the Spaniards the “Ibe´ri.” The river Ebro is a corrupt form of the Latin word Ibe´rus.
Launched with Iberia’s pilot from the steep,
To worlds unknown, and isles beyond the deep.
Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, ii. (1799).
Iblis (“despair”), called Aza´zil before he was cast out of heaven. He refused to pay homage to Adam, and was rejected by God.—Al Korân.
“We created you, and afterwards formed you, and all worshipped except Eblis.” ... And God said unto him, “What hindered you from worshipping Adam, since I commanded it?” He answered, “I am more excellent than he. Thou hast created me of fire, but him of clay.” God said, “Get thee down, therefore, from paradise ... thou shalt be one of the contemptible.”—Al Korân, vii.
Ib´rahim or L’Illustre Bassa, an heroic romance of Mdlle. de Scudéri (1641).
Ice´ni (3 syl.), the people of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. Their metropolis was Venta (Caistar near Norwich).—Richard of Cirencester, Chronicle, vi. 30.
The Angles, ... allured with ... the fitness of the place
Where the Iceni lived, did set their kingdom down ...