=I´sidore= (_3 syl._), a Greek slave, the concubine of Don Pèdre, a Sicilian nobleman. This slave is beloved by Adraste (_2 syl._) a French gentleman, who plots to allure her away. He first gets introduced as a portrait-painter, and reveals his love. Isidore listens with pleasure, and promises to elope with him. He then sends his slave Zaïde to complain to Don Pèdre of ill-treatment, and to crave protection. Don Pèdre promises to stand her friend, and at this moment Adraste appears and demands that she be given up to the punishment she deserves. Pèdre intercedes; Adraste seems to relent; and the Sicilian calls to the young slave to appear. Instead of Zaïde, Isidore comes forth in Zaïde’s veil. “There” says Pèdre, “I have arranged everything. Take her and use her well.” “I will do so,” says the Frenchman, and leads off the Greek slave.—Molière, _Le Sicilien ou L’Amour Peindre_ (1667). =Isis=, the moon. The sun is Osi´ris. _Egyptian Mythology_. They [_the priests_] wore rich mitres shapèd like the moon, To show that Isis doth the moon portend, Like as Osiris signifies the sun. Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. 7 (1596). =Iskander Beg==_Alexander the Great_, George Castriot (1414-1467). (See SKANDERBEG). =Iskander with the Two Horns=, Alexander the Great. This Friday is the 18th day of the moon of Safar, in the year 653 [i.e. _of the heg´ira, or_ A.D. 1255] since the retreat of the great prophet from Mecca to Medi´na; and in the year 7320 of the epoch of the great Iskander with the two horns.—_Arabian Nights_ (“The Tailor’s Story”). =Island of the Seven Cities=, a kind of Dixie’s land, where seven bishops, who quitted Spain during the dominion of the Moors, founded seven cities. The legend says that many have visited the island, but no one has ever quitted it. =Islands of the Blest=, called by the Greeks “Happy Islands,” and by the Latins “Fortunate Islands;” imaginary islands somewhere in the West, where the favorites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting joy. Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds that echo further West Than your sire’s Islands of the Blest. Byron. =Isle of Lanterns=, an imaginary country, inhabited by pretenders to knowledge, called “Lanternois.”—Rabelais, _Pantag´ruel_, v. 32, 33 (1545). ⁂ Lucien has a similar conceit, called _The City of Lanterns_; and Dean Swift, in his _Gulliver’s Travels_, makes his hero visit Laputa, which is an empire of quacks, false projectors, and pretenders to science. =Islington= (_The marquis of_), one of the companions of Billy Barlow, the noted archer. Henry VIII. jocosely created Barlow “duke of Shoreditch”, and his two companions “earl of Pancras” and “marquis of Islington.” =Ismael= “the infidel,” one of the Immortal Guard.—Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).