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Ossa

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Heaping Peʹhon upon Ossa. Adding difficulty to difficulty; fruitless efforts. The allusion is to the attempt of the giants to scale heaven by piling Mount Ossa upon Mount Pelion.

“Ter sunt conāti imponĕre Pelio Ossam.


Virgil: Georgics, i. 281.

 

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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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Ortwine
Orvietan
Os Sacrum
Osbaldistone
Oseway (Dame)
Osiris (in Egyptian mythology)
Osmand
Osnaburg
Osprey or Ospray (a corruption of Latin ossifragus, the bone-breaker)
Ossa
Osseo
Ossian
Ostend Manifesto
Oster-Monath
Ostler
Ostracism
Ostrich
Ostrich Brains
Ostrich Eggs in Churches
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