Pindus
- a lofty mountain in Thessaly, on the borders of Macedonia and Epirus, the seat of the Muses, now Mezzara, Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30: Othrysque Pindusque et Pindo major Olympus, Ov. M. 7, 225: juga Pindi, Verg. E. 10, 11: super Pindo, Hor. C. 1, 12, 6.
PINDUS (Πίνδος, Hdt. 1.56, 7.129; Strab. ix. pp. 428, 430, et alii), a long and lofty range of mountains in Northern Greece, running from north to south about midway between the Ionian and Aegaean seas, and forming the back-bone of the country, like the Apennines of the Italian peninsula. It is in fact a continuation of the same range which issues from the Balkan Mountains, and it takes the name of Pindus where it first intersects the northern boundary of Hellas Proper at the 40th degree of latitude. Pindus forms the boundary between Thessaly and Epeirus. In its northern part it is called Lacmon or Lacmus, and here the five principal rivers of Northern Greece rise,--the Haliacmon, Peneius, Achelous, Arachthus, and Aous. [LACMON] To that part of the range S. of Lacmon the name of Cercetium was given. (Κερκέτιον, Steph. B. s. v. Πιαλία; Κερκετήσιον ὄρος, Ptol. 3.13.19; Liv. 32.14; Plin. Nat. 4.8. s. 15.) Mount Cercetium is probably the main ridge of Khassiá; and one of the principal passes from Epeirus into Thessaly lay across this mountain. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 528, 529.) Still further south, at the 39th degree of latitude, a point in the range of Pindus is called Tymphrestus (Τυμφρηστός, Strab. 9. p. 433), now Velúkhi; and from it branch off the two chains of Othrys and Oeta, the former running nearly due east, and the latter more towards the south-east. A little S. of Tymphrestus the range of Pindus divides into two branches, and no longer bears the same name. [See Vol. 1. p. 1012.]
PINDUS (Πίνδος), one of the towns of the tetrapolis of Doris, situated upon a river of the sane name, which flows into the Cephissus near Lilaea. [DORIS] It was also called Ἀκύφας), as we learn from Strabo and from Theopompus (ap. Steph. B. s. v. Ἀκύφας). In one passage Strabo says that Pindus lay above Erineus, and in another he places it in the district of Oetaea; it is, therefore, probable that the town stood in the upper part of the valley, near the sources of the river in the mountain. (Strab. ix. pp. 427, 434; Scymn. Ch. 591; Schol, ad Pind. Pyth. 1.121; Mel. 2.3 ; Plin. Nat. 4.7. s. 13; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 2. p. 92.)
(Πίνδος). (1) A lofty range of mountains in Northern Greece, a portion of the great backbone which runs through the centre of Greece from north to south. The name of Pindus was confined to that part of the chain which separates Thessaly and Epirus; and its most northerly and also highest part was called Lacmon.
(2) One of the four towns in Doris, near the sources of a river of the same name.
- Hdt. 7.129
- an early home of the Dorians: Hdt. 1.56, Hdt. 8.93