Pindus

, a mountain, or rather a chain of mountains, between The aly, Macedonia, and Epirus. It was greatly celebrated as being sacred to the Muses and to Apollo. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 1 , li. 570 .— Strabo , bk. 18 .— Virgil , Eclogues , poem 10.— Lucan , bk. 1 , li. 674 ; bk. 6 , li. 339 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .――A town of Doris in Greece, called also Cyphas. It was watered by a small river of the same name which falls into the Cephisus, near Lilæa. Hero dot us , bk. 1 , ch. 56 .