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
- M
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..." - M
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..." - L
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."