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LATMUS

Volume 9 · 70 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a mountain of Ionia, or on the confines of Caria, famous for the fable of Endymion, of whom the Moon was said to be enamoured: hence called Latmus Heros, and Latmus Venator. In the mountain was a cave in which Endymion dwelt (Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius). Supposed by Hecateus to be the Phtheiron Mons of Homer; but by others to be Grius Mons, nor far from Latmus (Strabo).