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Hæmos

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A range of mountains separating Thrace and Mœʹsia, called by the classic writers Cold Hœmos. (Greek, cheimon, winter; Latin, hiems; Sanskrit, hima.)

“Oʹer high Pierʹia thence her course she bore,

Oʹer fair Emathʹia’s ever-pleasing shore;

Oʹer Hæmus hills with snows eternal crownʹd,

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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Haco I
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Hadith [a legend]
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Hadji
Hæmony
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Hag
Hagan of Trony
Hagarenes
Haggadah (plur. haggadoth)
Hagi
Hag-knots
Hagring
Ha-ha (A)