Ithome
Americannoun
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Mount, a mountain in SW Greece, in SW Peloponnesus. 2,630 feet (802 meters).
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in ancient geography, a fortress of Messenia on Mount Ithome.
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The Spartans reduce Ithome, and finish the first Messenian war.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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 Arthur Hugh Clough
Thrice he slew a hundred of the Spartan foe, and thrice he offered the Hekatomphonia on Mount Ithome.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Who in OEchalia, Eurytus' domain, In Tricca, and in rough Ithome dwelt, These Podalirius and Machaon led, Two skilful leeches, AEsculapius' sons.
From The Iliad by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby
Shortly afterwards, in the twentieth year of the war, the Messenians abandoned Ithome, which the Lacedaemonians razed to the ground, and the whole country became subject to Sparta.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
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