[985] Δίνδυμον: Strabo (493, 1) mentions the height above the city of Cyzicus, on which was a temple of Dindymene founded by the Argonauts. The name was probably derived from the two peaks (δίδυμος). Pliny calls it Didymus, and Catullus (63. 91) may have the same form for the mountain at Pessinus.
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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