Latmos

They say she is living in the country somewhere about Caria, at a place they call Latmos Cottage, cultivating her faded roses -- what a color Hebe has!

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The obvious absurdity of this theory will, however, be evident to any one who remembers her little flirtation with ENDYMION, whom she cruelly led from the paths of innocence, only to abandon him on the hills of Latmos, where he contracted the chills and fever by fruitlessly watching for her at night in the open field.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Various

Then Selene asked some people who were passing by to tell her the name of the hill, and they told her that it was called the hill of Latmos.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

There he lay day and night, for weeks, and months, and years; and many times, when the sun went down into the sea, Selene came and stood on the Latmian hill, and watched Endymion as he lay asleep on the marble steps beneath the drooping palm trees; and she said, "I have punished him because he would not leave his home; and Endymion sleeps forever in the land of Latmos."

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The gentleman was elegant and melancholy: he looked like Endymion on Latmos trying to recall his dream, or like Narcissus fading into shadow.

The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous

Hellenes, and from Protogeneia, their daughter, was born Aethlios, the man of toil and suffering, the father of Endymion, the fair, who sleeps on the hill of Latmos.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Endymion, in his noted love passages with the moon, may have had occasionally supreme felicity of this kind, in a relation otherwise of painfully impersonal and public nature; when, to wit, the goddess, after shining night after night over the seas and plains and hills, occasionally shot from behind a cloud one little gleam, one arrow of light, straight on to Latmos.

Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895

To him she may have been like Cynthia, stooping to the dreamer on Latmos.

Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

So, I think, if the sister of the Far-Darter had ever stepped aside from the path of her lonely delight -- as some have it she did on Latmos -- she would have done it without shame.

Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

It was on Latmos, not Ida, that Endymion shepherded his flocks; but that is of no moment, except to schoolmasters.

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878