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Pelion: synonyms: Πήλιο ???

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a range, or the highest of a range, of mountains in the east of Thessaly, upon which, according to Greek fables, the Titans hoisted up Mount Ossa in order to scale heaven and dethrone Zeus, a strenuous enterprise which did not succeed, and the symbol of all such.

Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)

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Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead

Till of this flat a mountain you have made

T' o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head

Of blue Olympus.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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