Hymettian

/ haɪˈmɛtɪk; haɪˈmɛtɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Hymettus, a mountain in SE Greece

Example Sentences

It was adorned with pillars of Hymettian marble, with expensive vases, and triclinia inlaid with brass.

From Project Gutenberg

An example of splendour and luxury had been set to him by the orator Crassus, who inhabited a sumptuous palace in Rome, the hall of which was adorned with four pillars of Hymettian marble, twelve feet high, which he brought to Rome in his ædileship, at a time when there were no pillars of foreign marble even in public buildings260.

From Project Gutenberg

What say you to Cicero's, in the Carinæ? or the grand portico of Quintus Catulus, rich with the Cimbric spoils? or, better yet, that of Crassus, with its Hymettian columns, on the Palatine?

From Project Gutenberg

The high altar of the subterranean church, under which the relics of St. Ignatius and St. Clement are supposed to lie, is covered by a canopy supported by elegant columns of pavonazzetto marble; while the high altar of the upper church is similarly surmounted by a double entablature of Hymettian marble, supported by four columns of pavonazzetto.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing too can be finer than the two rows of Ionic columns of Hymettian marble which divide the immense nave of Santa Maria Maggiore from the side aisles.

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