Chapter Biberius Caldius Mero to Bickerstaff of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Biceps Parnassus (Pers. Prol. 2), i.e. Parnassus with two heads or tops (bis caput).

“Nec fonte labra prolui caballino,
Nec in bicipiti somniasse Parnasso
Memini, ut repente sic poeta prodiren
Persius: Satires (prologue.

Bickerstaff (Isaac ). A name assumed by Dean Swift in a satirical pamphlet against Partridge, the almanack- maker. This produced a paper war so diverting that Steele issued the Tatler under the editorial name of “Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., Astrologer (1709).