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Mount Athos

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mountain in northeastern Greece

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Xerxes, exceedingly delighted with what Ephialtes promised to perform, immediately despatched Hydarnes with his troops from the camp about the hour of lamp-lighting. All night long the Persians marched, and at dawn reached the summit of the mountain. Here, as I have already mentioned, a thousand heavy-armed Phocians kept guard, to defend their own country, and to secure the pathway.
Herodotus, The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus
Close in meaning to Mount Athos; the term itself is not named.
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In the far North, beyond the Riphæan[20] mountains, is the region known by the name of Pterophoros,[21] because of the perpetual fall of snow there, the flakes of which resemble feathers; a part of the world which has been condemned by the decree of nature to lie immersed in thick darkness; suited for nothing but the generation of cold, and to be the asylum of the chilling blasts of the northern winds. Behind these…
the Elder Pliny, The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
Close in meaning to Mount Athos; the term itself is not named.
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Tenĕdos, an island off the coast of the Troad, 92. Terentius Priscus, the friend to whom the Third Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, 117. Terpander, of Lesbos, the father of Greek music (fl. 700), 194. Terpsion, of Megara, a disciple of Socrates (see the _Theaetetus_ of Plato), 18. Tettix, 199, 200. Thalēs, of Miletus (seventh and sixth centuries), an early philosopher, one of the Seven Wise Men, 12, 61, 98. Thamus…
Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
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Mount Athos

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