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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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
In the northwestern part of the famed Arcadia where the golden- horned hind roamed was a range of mountains called Erymanthus.
From Heroes Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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)
The western country is more open, with isolated mountain-groups and winding valleys, where the Alpheus with its tributaries the Ladon and Erymanthus drains off in a complex river-system the overflow from all Arcadia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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