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DINDYMA

Volume 17 · 102 words · 1810 Edition

-ORUM, (Virgil,) from Dindymus, -is a mountain allotted by many to Phrygia. Strabo has two mountains of this name; one in Myra near Cyzicus; the other in Gallogrecia near Pessinus; and none in Phrygia. Ptolemy extends this ridge from the borders of Troas, through Phrygia, to Gallogrecia: though therefore there were two mountains called Dindymus in particular, both sacred to the mother of the gods, and none of them in Phrygia Major; yet there Dingwal there might be several hills and eminences in it, on which this goddess was worshipped, and therefore called Dindyma in general. Hence Cybele is surnamed Dindymene, (Horace).