Crossword-Solution: PANGAEUS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Philip now crossed the Strymon, on the left bank of which lay Pangaeus, a range of mountains abounding in gold-mines.

The country now produced no fruit, and the inhabitants carried the impious king to Mount Pangaeus, where he was torn to pieces by horses.

Thence to Magnesia came we, and the land Where Macedonians dwell, and crossed the ford Of Axius, and Bolbe’s reedy fen, And mount Pangaeus, in Edonian land.

Thucydides was descended on his mother's side from the royal family of Thrace, [Footnote: Such, at least, is the highly probable conjecture of Classen.] and through this connexion he was the owner of valuable working rights in the gold-mines of Mount Pangaeus, and a man of great power and, influence in these districts.

When he reached the top of the ascent, he called a halt, and took a leisurely survey of the wide sweep of country spread below him,--to the north, the broad, marshy waters of Lake Cercynitis, from which the river issues just above the town,--eastwards, the towering summit of Mount Pangaeus,--and on the other side, just beneath his feet, the devoted city, which now seemed cowering, silent and deserted, as if conscious of Cleon's eagle glance.