Athos
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On Moral Ends
Mountain in Greece that Xerxes had a canal cut through
Just as, if Xerxes — when with such great fleets and such great forces of horse and foot, the Hellespont bridged, Athos pierced through, he had walked the sea and sailed the land — if, when he had come into Greece with so great an onset, someone should ask him the cause of such great forces and so great a war, and he should say that he had wished to carry off honey from Hymettus, he would surely s …
The Histories
Mountainous Chalcidice headland where a violent storm wrecked much of Mardonius's fleet, with heavy loss of life.
It is said that about three hundred ships were lost, and more than twenty thousand men.
Crossing over from Thasos they travelled near the land as far as Acanthus, and putting out from there they tried to round Athos.
Iliad
Mountain Hera passes over on her way to Lemnos.
When she came to Athos she went on over the, waves of the sea [ pontos] till she reached Lemnos, the city of noble Thoas.
Panegyricus
The mountain through which Xerxes cut a canal as part of his invasion preparations.
What orator, however eager to overshoot the mark, has not fallen short of the truth in speaking of this king, who rose to such a pitch of arrogance that, thinking it a small task to subjugate Hellas, and proposing to leave a memorial such as would mark a more than human power, did not stop until he had devised and compelled the execution of a plan whose fame is on the lips of all mankind—a plan by …
Meditations
A mountain named as an example of relative smallness in the universe.
Athos, a little clod of the universe;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Mountain forming the boundary of the Acte peninsula.
This territory runs out from the king's dike on the inner side of the isthmus, Athos, a high mountain which stands in it, being its boundary on the side of the Aegean Sea.