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Mammon

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014.

His name is Aramaic for "wealth." Milton also alludes to Spenser's Mammon in the Faerie Queene 2.7.
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