HIPPOCRENE (the " fountain of the horse," ii 'lrrov tcpitvrl)

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HIPPOCRENE (the " fountain of the horse," ii 'lrrov tcpitvrl) , the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

on Mt

Helicon

, in Boeotia, which, like the other

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

there, Aganippe, was sacred to the Muses and Apollo, and hence taken as the source of poetic

inspiration

INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

. The spring, surrounded by an ancient

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
RICHARD
_1694_1778_.html">WALL,
RICHARD
(1694-1778)

, is now known as Kryopegadi or the cold spring. According to the legend, it was produced by the stamping of the hoof of

Bellerophon

BELLEROPHON, or BELLEROPHONTES

horse

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

Pegasus. The same story accounts for the Hippocrene in Troezen and the spring Peirene at

Corinth

CORINTH
CORINTH, ISTHMUS OF

.

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