place
Caucasus
the Caucasus
also: Caucaso
Mountain range from which, Cicero says, watchers tracked the courses of the stars by number and measure, keeping records of vast antiquity (De Divinatione 1.36).
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §2.23 nailed fast to the Caucasus
The Caucasus range at the eastern edge of the known world, where Prometheus was chained as punishment for stealing fire, an eagle daily devouring his liver. The setting of the Aeschylean Prometheus Bound.