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Volume 8 · 49 words · 1778 Edition

a mountain of Thessaly, near the Peneus, which runs between this mountain and Olympus; famous in the fabulous story of the giants, (Homer, Virgil, Horace, Seneca, Ovid.) The bending and unbending of its pines, on the blowing of a strong north wind, formed a clashing sound like thunder, (Lucan.)