Marpessa
Μάρπησσα
Marpessa (Μάρπησσα), a mountain in the island of Paros, from which the celebrated Parian marble, was obtained. (Steph. B. sub voce Μάρπησσα.) [PAROS] Hence Virgil (6.471) speaks of Marpesia cautes.
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.