place
Hymettus
also: Hymettia
A mountain near Athens famed for its honey; 'Hymettian honey' is a byword for the choicest sweetness.
Reading notes
- The Odes §2.6 Hymettus
The Attic mountain whose honey the Tarentine honey 'yields nothing to.'
- The Odes §2.18 Hymettus
The Attic mountain whose marble beams Horace's modest house lacks.
- The Satires §2.2 Hymettian honey
Honey from Mount Hymettus near Athens, proverbially the finest; 'thinned with Falernian' it makes a luxurious drink (mulsum).