a lofty 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). It was once the residence of the Centaurs, and was formerly joined to Mount Olympus; but Hercules, as some report, separated them, and made between them the celebrated valley of Tempe. The separation of the two mountains was more probably effected by an earthquake which happened about 1885 years before the Christian era. Its greatest celebrity arises from its being one of those mountains which the giants in their wars against the gods heaped up one on the other to scale the heavens with more facility. A town of Macedonia.