Pangæus

, a mountain of Thrace, anciently called Mons Car am in us , and joined to mount Rhodope near the sources of the river Nestus. It was inhabited by four different nations. It was on this mountain that Lycurgus the Thracian king was torn to pieces, and that Orpheus called the attention of the wild beasts, and of the mountains and woods, to listen to his song. It abounded in gold and silver mines. Hero dot us , bk. 5 , ch. 16 , . ; bk. 7 , ch. 113 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 4 , li. 462 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 3 , li. 739 .— Thucydides , bk. 2 .— Lucan , bk. 1 , li. 679 ; bk. 7 , li. 482 .