Brewer's: Hæmos

A range of mountains separating Thrace and Mœsia, called by the classic writers Cold Hœmos. (Greek, cheimon, winter; Latin, hiems; Sanskrit, hima.)

O'er high Pieria thence her course she bore, O'er fair Emathia's ever-pleasing shore; O'er Hæmus' hills with snows eternal crown'd, Nor once her flying foot approached the ground.

Pope: Homer's Iliad, xiv.

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