Erymanthus

or Er·i·man·thus, Er·y·man·thos

[ er-uh-man-thuhs ]

noun

1. a mountain in S Greece, in the NW Peloponnesus. 7,295 feet (2,225 meters).

Erymanthus

/ ˌɛrɪˈmænθəs /

noun

1. Mount Erymanthus
   a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft) Modern Greek nameErímanthoseˈrimanθɔs

Example Sentences

The fourth labor was to capture a great boar which had its lair on Mount Erymanthus.

From Literature

Capture of the boar of Erymanthus, while chasing which he fought the Centaurs and killed his friends Chiron and Pholus, this homicide leading to Demeter’s institution of mysteries.

From Project Gutenberg

The same success crowned his fourth labor, the capture of the wild boar of Erymanthus in Arcadia.

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He captured the savage wild boar of Mount Erymanthus, in Arcadia, and brought it bound to Eurys´theus.

From Project Gutenberg

The stream called Erymanthus, which is the old boundary, though called a λάβρος ποταμὸς by Polybius, does not strike the traveller here as it does higher up in its course, and the only other confluent water worth mentioning is the Ladon, which meets the Alpheus at some hours’ ride above Olympia, but which counted of old as a river of Arcadia.

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