Ithome

American  

[ih-thoh-mee] / ɪˈθoʊ mi /

noun

1. Mount, a mountain in SW Greece, in SW Peloponnesus. 2,630 feet (802 meters).

2. in ancient geography, a fortress of Messenia on Mount Ithome.

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Example Sentences

The Lacedaemonians, meanwhile, finding the war against the rebels in Ithome likely to last, invoked the aid of their allies, and especially of the Athenians, who came in some force under the command of Cimon.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard

While the siege of Ithome was in progress, Sparta, still powerful in her alliances, sent her allied forces into Boeotia to counteract the growing influence of the Athenians in that quarter.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

On one hand is Ithome and the Messenian Gulf, on the other the Ionian Sea and the Strophades....

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Some time after this, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succors of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

In the thirteenth year of the war the Spartan king marched against Ithome, and a second great battle was fought, but the result was again indecisive.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir