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Ombrius

Ὄμβριος

(Ὄμβριος), i. e. the rain-giver, a surname of Zeus, under which he had an altar on Mount Hymettus in Attica. (Paus. 1.32.3; comp. Hes. Op. et Di. 587, 620.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.