The tryst-place of unlawful love. It was here that Mars had his assignation with Harmonĭa, who became the mother of the Amazons.
“Cʹest là que … Mars eut les faveurs de la nymphe Harmonie, commerce dont naquirent les Amazones”—Etienne; Géographie.
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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.