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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

HIPPOCRENE (the "
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FOUNTAIN (Late Lat. fontana, from ions, a spring)
fountain of the
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HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)
horse," ii 'lrrov tcpitvrl) , the

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SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring on Mt

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Helicon, in

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BOEOTIA

Boeotia, which, like the other spring there, Aganippe, was sacred to the

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MUSES, THE (Gr. Mo6o-at, the thinkers)

Muses and

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APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo, and hence taken as the source of poetic

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INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration . The spring, surrounded by an

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ancient

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wall, is now known as Kryopegadi or the

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COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold spring . According to the

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LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, it was produced by the stamping of the hoof of

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BELLEROPHON, or BELLEROPHONTES

Bellerophon's

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

horse

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PEGASUS (from Gr. lrgyor, compact, strong)

Pegasus . The same

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story accounts for the

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

Hippocrene in Troezen and the spring Peirene at

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Corinth .

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