Ombrius

I.e. the rain-giver, a surname of Zeus, under which he had an altar on Mount Hymettus in Attica. Cp. Hyetius, Aphesius.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 32.3; comp. Hesiod. Works and Days, 587, 620.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.