Olympus

, a physician of Cleopatra queen of Egypt, who wrote some historical treatises. Plutarch , Antonius .――A poet and musician of Mysia, son of Mæon and disciple to Marsyas. He lived before the Trojan war, and distinguished himself by his amatory elegies, his hymns, and particularly the beautiful airs which he composed, and which were still preserved in the age of Aris toph anes. Plato , Minos .— Aristotle , Politics , bk. 8 .――Another musician of Phrygia, who lived in the age of Midas. He is frequently confounded with the preceding. Pollux , bk. 4 , ch. 10 .――A son of Hercules and Eubœa. Apollo dor us. ――A mountain of Macedonia and The aly, now Lacha . The ancients supposed that it touched the heavens with its top; and, from that circumstance, they have placed the residence of the gods there, and have made it the court of Jupiter. It is about one mile and a half in perpendicular height, and is covered with pleasant woods, caves, and grottoes. On the top of the mountain, according to the notions of the poets, there was neither wind nor rain, nor clouds, but an eternal spring. Homer , Iliad , bk. 1 , . — Virgil , Æneid , bks. 2, 6, . — Ovid , Metamorphoses .— Lucan , bk. 5 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .— Strabo , bk. 8 .――A mountain of Mysia, called the Mysian Olympus, a name which it still preserves.――Another in Elis.――Another in Arcadia.――Another in the island of Cyprus, now Santa Croce . Some suppose the Olympus of Mysia and of Cilicia to be the same.――A town on the coast of Lycia.