Erymanthus
Americannoun
noun
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The fourth labor was to capture a great boar which had its lair on Mount Erymanthus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
On one hand, two peaked Parnassus rears his cope of snow aloft over Delphi; on the other, Erymanthus and Hermes' home, Cyllene, bar the pastoral glades of Arcady.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Aphidnus next, and Erymanthus dies, And Meropes, and the gigantic size Of Bitias, threat'ning with his ardent eyes.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
The same success crowned his fourth labor, the capture of the wild boar of Erymanthus in Arcadia.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
It included not only the champaign country originally designated by its name, but also the mountainous region of Acrorea, occupied by the offshoots of Erymanthus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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