Pyrene
A daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her.
Proper noun
- A daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her.
- The Pyrenees.
- The power of the Kings more abſolute, than in moſt other kingdomes, their territories very large; for the Kings of England, beſide Ireland, have commanded from the Iſles of Orkenay, to the Pyrene Mountains, and are de...
- The Pyrene (Πυρήνη) or Pyrenaei Montes were the boundary between Gallia and Iberia […] - 1878, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1, page 949:
- Again it is from the Pyrene, which is a mountain towards the equinoctial setting (i.e. due west) in Celtica, that both the Istrus and the Tartessus flow; […] - 1879, Edward Herbert Bunbury, A History of Ancient...
Origin
Borrowed from Latin Pȳrēnē, from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).