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eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 10 On þære ilcan Asiam is se hehsta beorg Olimpus.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 185 Þe hil mons Olympus..passeþ þe clowdes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 51 (MED) Olympiades beþ playes i-ordeyned vnder þe hille Olympus in worschepe of Iubiter.
a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) ii. 3594 From Olympus ther cam a wilde boor.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) 1111 in (2003) 72 We raid the hill of Bachus, Citheron, And Olympus, the mont of Massidon.
1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil 106 Thy soul God gladdeth with saincts in blessed Olympus.
a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. iii. 30 As if Olympus to a Mole-hill should In supplication Nod. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Reynolds vii. 173 Their piercing eyes of power, to obscure the brightness of Olympus.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer I. i. 551 To move thy Suit I'll go, To great Olympus crown'd with fleecy Snow.
1765 W. Shirley i. ii. 108 Yet unfulfill'd thy prophecy remains Of joy to high Olympus.
1864 G. A. Simcox Undertones iii, in (1901) I. 34 Lovely as the shapes That doze on high Olumpos.
1878 J. Payn I. iii. 25 The gods of the Buddhist Olympus.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. I. 47 Every variety of land-surface from Mount Olympus to the paludal lakes of the plain.
1944 K. Rexroth Adonis in Winter in (1966) 159 Free of the patronizing gods, The cruel climate of Olympus.
1999 May 203/3 The artist's beautiful, maenadic daughters cavorting on the slopes of Hydra much as the Muses supposedly did on Mount Olympus.