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  • There found she Kronos 'son of the far-sounding voice sitting apart from all on the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • And they found the son of Kronos sitting apart from all the gods on the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • In that famous Pass, they will feel the power possessed by the sweet wild monotony of the universal birch woods -- broken but by grey crags in every shape -- grotesque, fantastical, majestic, magnificent, and sublime -- on the many-ridged mountains, that are loth to lose the green light of their beloved forests, retain it as long as they can, and on the masses of living lustre seem to look down with pride from their skies.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • Now Dawn the saffron-robed was spreading over all the earth, and Zeus whose joy is in the thunder let call an assembly of the gods upon the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus, and himself made harangue to them and all the gods gave ear: "Hearken to me, all gods and all ye goddesses, that I may tell you what my heart within my breast commandeth me.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

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