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Latmus (Latmos). A mountain in Caria, extending in a southeast direction from the Sinus Latmicus. It was the mythological scene of the story of Selene (Luna) and Endymion, who is hence called by the Roman poets Latmius heros and Latmius venator.
Latmus (Latmos), a mountain of Caria, rising at the head of the Latmic bay, and stretching along in a north-western direction. (Strab. xiv. p. 635 ; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 57; Plin. v. 31 ; Pomp. Mel. i. 17.) It is properly the western offshoot of Mount Albanus or Albacus. This mountain is probably alluded to by Homer (Il. ii. 868), when he speaks of the mountain of the Phthirians, in the neighbourhood of Miletus. In Greek mythology, Mount Latmus is a place of some celebrity, being described as the place where Artemis (Luna) kissed the sleeping Endymion. In later times there existed on the mountain a sanctuary of Endymion, and his tomb was shown in a cave. (Apollod. i. 7. § 5 ; Hygin. Fab. 271; Ov. Trist. ii. 299; Val. Flacc. iii. 28; Paus. v. 1. § 4; Stat. Silv. iii. 4. § 40.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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