Hymettus
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Fanned by strong winds, the fire quickly spread across the slopes of Mount Hymettus which overlooks the Greek capital, sending thick clouds of smoke over the southern suburbs.
From Reuters • Jun. 4, 2022
From Hymettus were two conduits passing under the bed of the Ilissus, most of the course being cut in the rock.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
And when our eyes were tired, we rested them by looking out between the columns to the hills, Hymettus and Pentelicus, glorified in the evening light, wearing always their "violet crown."
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
You can almost hear the bees on Mount Hymettus, and you would receive the advance of a Centaur as calmly as Alice noted the approach of the White Rabbit.
From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding
He saw Pentelicus and Hymettus, Parnes and Cithæron, the hills he had wandered over in glad boyhood, the hills where rested his ancestors’ dust.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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