Hymettus
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Fanned by strong winds, the fire quickly spread across the slopes of Mount Hymettus which overlooks the Greek capital, sending thick clouds of smoke over the southern suburbs.
From Reuters ● Jun. 4, 2022
And Antiphanes enumerates "mustard, and also scammony juice from Cyprus; cardamums from Miletus; onions from Samothrace; cabbages, kail, and assafœtida from Carthage; thyme from Hymettus, and marjoram from Tenedos."
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
One morning my Scotch friend and I set out early to ascend Mount Hymettus.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
Next, resting upon Hymettus, he examines, even in the minutest detail, the whole of Attica, to the Sunian promontory; for he sees it all—and all the shores of Argos, Sicyon, Corinth, Megara, Eleusis, and Athens.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
The left or north-western chain is Mount Parnes; the right or eastern is Mount Hymettus.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
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