place
Hybla
Sicilian town famous for the honey of its thyme-clad slopes; a byword for bees and sweetness.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.24 Hybla
Sicilian town famed for its bees and honey.
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.7 Hybla
Hybla in Sicily, famed for its thyme and honey-bees; its countless flowers measure the countlessness of Ovid's troubles.
- Sorrows §5.13 Hybla
The Sicilian hill famed for thyme and honey-bees; 'sooner would Hybla lack its thyme' than the friend forget Ovid.