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Mons Sacer

τὸ ἱερὸν ὸ́ρος

Mons Sacer (τὸ ἱερὸν ὸ́ρος, Ptol. 3.17.4), a mountain range on the SE. coast of Crete, near Hierapytna, identified with the PYTNA (Πύτνα) of Strabo (x. p.472; comp. Groskurd, ad loc.; Höck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 16.)

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.