place
Olympus
also: Olympum, Olympicum
The mountain-seat of the gods, shaken by Jupiter's chariot; also the site of the Olympic games.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.1 Olympic dust
The dust of the four-horse chariot-race at Olympia in Elis; victory there 'exalts men, lords of the earth, to the gods.'
- The Odes §1.12 Olympus
The heaven Jupiter shakes with his chariot.
- The Odes §3.4 Olympus
The gods' seat the Giants tried to scale by heaping Pelion upon it.