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Mount Ossa

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Mount Ossa
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Otus and Ephialtes try to stack Mount Ossa on Olympus and Mount Pelion on Ossa to scale heaven.

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“tried to set Mount Ossa on the top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on the top of Ossa”

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“Mount Ossa”

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Book 11 · Passage 25

‘After her I saw Iphimedeia wife of Aloeus who boasted the embrace of Neptune. She bore two sons Otus and Ephialtes, but both were short lived. They were the finest children that were ever born in this world, and the best looking, Orion only excepted; for at nine years old they were nine fathoms high, and measured nine cubits round the chest. They threatened to make war with the gods in Olympus, and tried to set Mount Ossa on the top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on the top of Ossa, that they might scale heaven itself, and they would have done it too if they had been grown up, but Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them, before they had got so much as a sign of hair upon their cheeks or chin.