LACMON
LACMON (
Λάκμων, Hecat.
Fr. 70;
Hdt. 9.92;
Steph. B. sub voce or LACMUS (
Λάκμος, Strab. vi. p.271, vii. p. 316), the highest summit of Mount Pindus, the
Zygós or ridge of
Métzovo. This is geographically the most remarkable mountain in Greece; situated in the heart of Pindus as to its breadth, and centrally also in the longitudinal chain which pervades the continent from N. to S.: it gives rise to five principal rivers, in fact to all the great streams of Northern Greece except the Spercheius ; north-eastward to the Haliacmon, south-eastward to the Peneius, southward to the Achelous, south-westward to the Arachthus, and north-westward to the Aous. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. i. pp. 294, 411-415, vol. iv. pp. 240, 261, 276.)
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