Tmolus

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proper noun

A king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.

OriginAncient Greek Τμῶλος →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Greekhuman sciencesA king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.
  2. human sciencesA mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.

    The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

    a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekΤμῶλος
  2. EnglishTmolus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).

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