place
Caucasus
the Caucasus
also: Caucasum
The forbidding mountain range east of the Black Sea, proverbially inhospitable.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.22 Caucasus
The forbidding mountain wall between the Black and Caspian seas, a type of the inhospitable wild.
- The Epodes §1 Caucasus
The mountain range east of the Black Sea, proverbially harsh and inhospitable.