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
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To the north the chain of Erymanthus still hid from us the far distance.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
He captured the savage wild boar of Mount Erymanthus, in Arcadia, and brought it bound to Eurys´theus.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann
Erymanthus, a mountain in Arcadia that was the haunt of the boar killed by Hercules.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
The other seems like a mythological vision, a nymph from the banks of Erymanthus.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack
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