Hymettus
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in the texts
On Moral Ends
Mountain near Athens famous for its honey
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
Mountain in Attica beneath which the Athenians had granted the Pelasgians land before expelling them.
The Pelasgians set out from their settlement at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way:
for when the Athenians saw the land under Hymettus, formerly theirs, which they had given to the Pelasgians as a dwelling-place in reward for the wall that had once been built around the acropolis—when the Athenians saw how well this place was tilled which previously had been bad and worthless, they were envious and coveted the land, and so drove the Pelasgians out on this and no other pretext.