The Devil's Dictionary: Olympian

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
OLEAGINOUS
OMEN

OLYMPIAN

-adj.

Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite.

His name the smirking tourist scrawls
Upon Minerva's temple walls,
Where thundered once Olympian Zeus,
And marks his appetite's abuse.

- Averil Joop

.com/t/lit/devils-dictionary/O/13.html
Sources +