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Ossa

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Ossa (ô`sä), peak, c.6,490 ft (1,980 m) high, NE Thessaly, N Greece. According to legend the Aloadae Aloadae or Aloidae , in Greek mythology, two giants who warred against the Olympian gods. Their names were

Otus and

Ephialtes, and they were sons of Aloeus' wife by Poseidon.
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 piled Mt. Pelion on Ossa when they stormed Olympus.
Ossa
a mountain in NE Greece, in E Thessaly: famous in mythology for the attempt of the twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, to reach heaven by piling Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa. Height: 1978 m (6489 ft.)


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He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than a real and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that "tantum pellis et ossa fuit," surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid.
They threatened to make war with the gods in Olympus, and tried to set Mount Ossa on the top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on the top of Ossa, that they might scale heaven itself, and they would have done it too if they had been grown up, but Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them, before they had got so much as a sign of hair upon their cheeks or chin.
Ossa enis perfringam, I will break your bones, as the Vulgate hath it.
 
 
 
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