Lunae Montes
Σελήνης ὄρος Αἰθιοπίας
Lunae Montes (Σελήνης ὄρος Αἰθιοπίας, Ptol. 4.8. § § 3, 6), from which mountains, and from the lakes formed by their melting snows, Ptolemy derives the sources of the Nile. Their position is unknown, and if they have any real existence, they must be placed S. of the Equator.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.