Erymanthus

, a mountain, river, and town of Arcadia, where Hercules killed a prodigious boar, which he carried on his shoulders to Eurystheus, who was so terrified at the sight that he hid himself in a brazen ve el. Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 24 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 802 .— Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 6 .— Cicero , Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 2 , ch. 8 ; bk. 4 , ch. 22 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 499 .