Homole

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Hŏmŏlē, ēs, f., = Ὁμόλη,

I a high mountain in Thessaly , near Tempe , Verg. A. 7, 675.—At the foot of it was the city Hŏmŏlĭum , Plin. 4, 9, 16, § 32; Liv. 42, 38, 10.—

II Deriv. Hŏmŏlōĭ-des , um, f. (sc. portae), = Ὁμολωίδες πύλαι, the Homoloian gate in Thebes (so named from the Cadmeans, who came from Mount Homole), Stat. Th. 7, 252.

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