olympus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Olympus, Olympi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Geography:
- Greece
Olympus; Mt Olympus in Greece; the gods; heaven;
nom. sg.
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...475praecipitauit Arar. summisso uertice montesexplicuere iugum, nubes suspexit Olympus,solibus et nullis Scythicae, cum bruma rigeret,dimaduere niues..."Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...telluris uentos tractusque coruscos 270flammarum accipiunt; nubes excedit Olympus. lege deum minimas rerum discordia turbat, pacem magna tenent..."Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...monstris, stetit imposita Pelion Ossa, pinifer ambos pressit Olympus. Ades, o magni, soror et coniunx, consors sceptri, regia..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...cornua uasto cum gemitu; reboant siluaeque et longus Olympus. nec mos bellantis una stabulare, sed alter uictus abit..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...altum Pelion herbas, Othrysque Pindusque et Pindo maior Olympus, perspicit et placitas partim radice revellit, partim succidit curvamine..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fauni et satyri fratres et tunc quoque carus Olympus et nymphae flerunt, et quisquis montibus illis lanigerosque greges..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...frigora: Caucasus ardet Ossaque cum Pindo maiorque ambobus Olympus aeriaeque Alpes et nubifer Appenninus. Tum vero Phaethon cunctis..."