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duced the Greeks to the knowledge of ftringed inftruments ; : 
and that he inftitated the cuftom of celebrating, with the 
ee hymns to the polycephalic nome, in honour of the 
a Plato fays, that his mufic inflamed his auditors 5 Arif. 
totle, that it exalted the foul; 
pafied in fimplicity all other mufic. 
to him the polycephalic nome, in honour of Apollo; though 
others afcribe it to Crates. 
OtyM MPUS, in Ancient Geography, a name given to feveral 
lofty mountains, and thence transferred to the heavens. Le 
Clerc derives it from “ Holami mbo,”’ immortales i in eo; but 
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mountains was — ; and feven have 
been particularly noticed by geographer omer always 
diftinguifhes Olympus as the eure of the gods, alluding 
occafionally to the mountain which feparated Macedonia 
from Theffaly, and which was one o ie pee kd 
known to the ancients, and cor veneer by Eur 
graphers under this name. 8 os (which fee) atonthed 
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hill ran the famous river Helicon, and near it ftood a noble 
emple of Ju pad in the ft of a fhady grove. e 
mountains Pelion were in ourheod, and 
O the neighb od, 
very confiderble for their height, though they fell far thort 
of Olym onnini _ Neds rticularly defcribed his — 
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ce are a grotto, or {mall chapel, faid to 
by St. er nis himfelf ; a hut which ferved 
t the ay of the a a 
from nore rrent in the rock, and which, 
the fable fays, the faint parieen to appear by ftriking the 
rock with cap. mall church of this convent is 
tolerably handfome; a lee: beautiful luftre of bronze, 
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Above this infulated convent, 
ituated in a very wild place, there are no more habitations 
on mount Olympus. Our travellers, as they advanced to- 
wards the fu ummit, foon met with lar, arge e heaps of fnow; and 
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the ete have placed the abode of de gods on an eminence 
which mortals cannot reach?” At this time it was t 
middle of ie ly: the heat was extreme towards the bafe of 
the mountain, as well as in the plain; and the mafles of 
whic 
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vale of Tempé, which the a 
feribed as a ru ‘al delight, eee = bé a very narrow 
orge; an r Peneus, which waters it, a ftreamlet 
of water ferreely repel, At che ony of Skala, 
the tem a etdaene is mild, vegetation vigorous, and the num- 
Oly of animat ‘bone greater than the frozen fummit of 
mpus afforded, with the exception of bouquetins, native 
jal bitants of the rocks, and a few bears. 
any quadrupeds to be feen beyond the half of the height of 
Olympus: eae do birds pafs this limit. The other fix 
mountai i r the fame name, are thofe of Theflaly, 
s whic 
Myfia, a oe “Elide, “Arcadia, and the ifle of Cyprus. 
See Our 
Ly ioe a promontory of the ifle of Cyprus, before 
Carpafia, where was a temple of Venus crea; now called 
s* Santa Cro 
The Myfian , Olympus was a chain of ee com. 
mencing north of and near to the fource of the Her 
and extending - fouth to io, as far as eal Tt 
bears now the fame name. 
PUS, a oa of Illyria—Alfo, a town of ea in. 
ia.— Alfo, a town of Afia Mino 
a a ‘eon of L 
a eae ulf, between the pif of 
Pallené and ‘Siothon ia. This town was pofleiled: by the- 
9 Greeks,, 
