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Ὄλυμπος , ὁ, Ep. also Οὔλυμπος , metri gr., Mount Olympus (in Thessaly, Hdt.1.56, etc.), conceived to be the seat of the gods, Od. 6.42, but distd. from heaven (οὐρανός), Il.15.192 sq., cf. 5.867 sq. ;
A.“οὐρανὸς Οὔ. τε” 5.750 (but = οὐρανός, sky, Od.20.103, cf. 113) ; “Κρονίωνα θεῶν ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων ἀκροτάτῃ κορυφῇ πολυδειράδος Οὐ.” Il.5.754 ; ἑκάστῳ (sc. θεῶν) “δώματα καλὰ τέτυκτο κατὰ πτύχας Οὐλύμποιο” 11.77, cf. 18.186 : in Att. = οὐρανός, a form of oath, “οὐ τὸν Ὄ.” S.OT1088 (lyr.), cf. Ant.758.
II. of other mountains, as in Mysia, Hdt.1.36, S.Fr.522, X.Cyn.11.1 ; in Laconia, Plb.2.65.8 ; in Elis, Str.8.3.31 ; in Lycia, Id.14.3.8, cf. 14.5.7 ; in Cyprus, Id.14.6.3.
III. Adv. Ὄλυμπόνδε, in Hom. always Οὔλυμπόνδε , Il.1.221, al. :—to, towards Olympus, Pi.O.3.36, etc. ; Οὐλυμπόθεν , from O., Id.P.4.214.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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