LATMUS
LATMUS (
Λάτμος), a mountain of Caria, rising at the head of the Latmic bay, and stretching along in a north-western direction. (
Strab. xiv. p.635 ;
Apollon. 4.57;
Plin. Nat. 5.31 ; Pomp. Mel. 1.17.)
It is properly the western offshoot of Mount Albanus or Albacus.
This mountain is probably alluded to by Homer (
Hom. Il. 2.868), when he speaks of the mountain of the Phthirians, in the neighbourhood of Miletus. In Greek mythology, Mount Latmus is a place of some celebrity, being described as the place where Artemis (Luna) kissed the sleeping Endymion.
In later times there existed on the mountain a sanctuary of Endymion, and his tomb was shown in a cave. (
Apollod. 1.7.5 ;
Hyg. Fab. 271;
Ov. Tr. 2.299;
V. Fl. 3.28;
Paus. 5.1.4;
Stat. Silv. 3.4.40.)
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