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LATMUS

Volume 11 · 71 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, 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 Hecataeus to be the Phtheirion Mons of Homer; but by others to be Grius Mons, not far from Latmus (Strabo).