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A range of mountains separating Thrace and Mœ’sia, called by the classic writers Cold Hœmos. (Greek, cheimon, winter; Latin, hiems; Sanskrit, hima.)
“O’er high Pier’ia thence her course she bore,
O’er fair Emath’ia’s ever-pleasing shore;
O’er Hæmus hills with snows eternal crown’d,
Nor once her flying foot approached the ground”
Pope: Homer’s Iliad, xiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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