Erymanthus
Americannoun
noun
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Capture of the boar of Erymanthus, while chasing which he fought the Centaurs and killed his friends Chiron and Pholus, this homicide leading to Demeter’s institution of mysteries.
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The same success crowned his fourth labor, the capture of the wild boar of Erymanthus in Arcadia.
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He captured the savage wild boar of Mount Erymanthus, in Arcadia, and brought it bound to Eurys´theus.
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The stream called Erymanthus, which is the old boundary, though called a λάβρος ποταμὸς by Polybius, does not strike the traveller here as it does higher up in its course, and the only other confluent water worth mentioning is the Ladon, which meets the Alpheus at some hours’ ride above Olympia, but which counted of old as a river of Arcadia.
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Erymanthus, Mount, 343; river, 345, 347, 358.
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