Cithaeron

American  

[si-theer-uhn] / sɪˈθɪər ən /

noun

1. a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4,623 feet (1,409 meters).

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Example Sentences

Now imagine that an editor mindlessly followed the common advice to avoid the passive and altered the passage accordingly: A man arrives from Corinth with the message that Oedipus’s father has died It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that someone gave him a baby....

From Literature

A man arrives from Corinth with the message that Oedipus’s father has died It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby....

From Literature

The image was put away after each occasion; every sixty years a large number of such images, which had served in previous celebrations, were carried in procession to the top of Mount Cithaeron, and were burned on an altar together with animals and the altar itself.

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Thereupon he was sent to tend Amphitryon’s oxen, and at this period slew the lion of Mount Cithaeron.

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The associations of Greek poetry are also evoked in the reference to the woods and streams of Lycaeus, to the lowing herds of Cithaeron, to the dogs that range over Taygetus, and to the famous horses of the Argive plain.

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