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See also:HIPPOCRENE (the " See also:fountain of the See also:horse," ii 'lrrov tcpitvrl) , the See also:spring on Mt See also:Helicon, in See also:Boeotia, which, like the other spring there, Aganippe, was sacred to the See also:Muses and See also:Apollo, and hence taken as the source of poetic See also:inspiration . The spring, surrounded by an See also:ancient See also:wall, is now known as Kryopegadi or the See also:cold spring . According to the See also:legend, it was produced by the stamping of the hoof of See also:Bellerophon's See also:horse See also:Pegasus . The same See also:story accounts for the See also:Hippocrene in Troezen and the spring Peirene at See also:Corinth . |
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