Cithaeron
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The Greeks followed, taking the high ground on Mount Cithaeron.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
Oedipus begs him to let him live on Cithaeron, beseeching him to look after his two daughters whose birth is so stained that no man can ever wed them.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
There, there Leave me to range the mountain, where my nurse, Cithaeron, echoeth with my name,—Cithaeron, Which both my parents destined for my tomb.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
No Orphic festivals on Mount Cithaeron ever raged more wildly.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
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