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SARDIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Tmolus (Tmolos), a mountain range on the south of Sardes, forming
the watershed between the basins of the Hermus in the north and the Cayster in
the south, and being connected in the east with Mount Messogis. It was said to
have received its name from a Lydian king Timolus, whence Ovid (Met. vi. 16) gives
this name to the mountain itself. Mount Tmolus was celebrated for the excellent
wine growing on its slopes (Virg. Georg. ii. 97; Senec. Phoen. 602; Eurip. Bacch.
55, 64; Strab. xiv. p. 637; Plin. v. 30). It was equally rich in metals; and the
river Pactolus, which had its source in Mount Tmolus, at one time carried from
its interior a rich supply of gold. (Strab. xiii. pp. 591, 610, 625; Plin. xxxiii.
43; comp. Horn. Il. ii. 373; Aesch. Pers. 50; Herod. i. 84, 93, v. 101; Ptol.
v. 2. § 13; Dion. Per. 831.) On the highest summit of Mount Tmolus, the Persians
erected a marble watch-tower commanding a view of the whole of the surrounding
country (Strab. xiii. p. 625). The Turks now call the mountain Bouz Dagh. (Richter,
Wallfahrten, pp. 512, 519.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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