Hymettus

Proper noun

Hymettus

1. A mountain of Attica, famous for its honey and marble.
   • There flowerie hill, Hymettus with the ſound / Of bees’ induſtrious murmur oft invites / To ſtudious muſing;1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 91
   • Thither the bees came, however, and plunged into the squash-blossoms, as if there were no other squash-vines within a long day’s flight, or as if the soil of Hepzibah’s garden gave its productions just the very quality which these laborious little wizards wanted, in order to impart the Hymettus...1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon-garden”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 160