Hæmus

, a mountain which separates Thrace from The aly, so high that from its top are visible the Euxine and Adriatic seas, though this, however, is denied by Strabo. It receives its name from Hæmus son of Boreas and Orithyia, who married Rhodope, and was changed into this mountain for aspiring to divine honours. Strabo , bk. 7 , p. 313.— Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 11 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 6 , li. 87 .――A stage-player. Juvenal , satire 3, li. 99 .