Tempe, A place in Thessalia wonderfull pleasaunt, hauingtrees and medowes marnaylous velectable, wherein birds of diuerse kindes doe sing continuallye with excellence melodie: thereof all pleasaunte woodes haue the name of Tempe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Tempē, indecl. plur. n., = *te/mph, ta(I.Lit., a charming valley in Thessaly, through which ran the river Peneus, between Olympus and Ossa, now valley of Lykostomo or Dereli, Mel. 2, 3, 2; Plin. 4, 8, 15, 31; 16, 44, 92, 244; Liv. 44, 6; 33, 35; Hor. C. 1, 7; 4; 1, 21, 9; 3, 1, 24: Peneia, Verg. G. 4, 317; Ov. M. 7, 222.—II.Transf., of other beautiful valleys: frigida, Verg. G. 2, 469; Ov. F. 4, 477; id. Am. 1, 1, 15: Cycneia, id. M. 7, 371; Stat. Th. 1, 485 (cf. written as Greek: Reatini me ad sua te/mph duxerunt, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5).