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Ossa , ae, f. (m., Ov. M. 1, 155), = Ὄσσα,
I.a high mountain in Thessaly, now Kissovo, Mel. 2, 3, 2; Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30: “ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam,Verg. G. 1, 281: “Ossan,Ov. F. 1, 307.—Hence, Ossaeus , a, um, adj., Ossean: “saxa,Verg. Cir. 33: “rupes,Luc. 6, 334: “media,Stat. Th. 2, 82: “Ossaei bimembres,” i. e. the Centaurs who dwell about Ossa, id. ib. 12, 554.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.155
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.281
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.334
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.30
    • Statius, Thebias, 2
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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