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• PEGASUS (from Gr. lrgyor, compact, strong)

PEGASUS (from Gr. lrgyor, compact, strong)  , the famous as See also:

• APATITE

apatite and See also:

• TOURMALINE

tourmaline often occur in gigantic crystals . Peg-winged See also:

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

horse of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• FABLE (Fr. fable, Lat. fabula)

fable, said to have sprung from the See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk matites consist of minerals which are found also in the rocks of the See also:

• GORGON, GORGONS (Gr. Popyc'o, Fopyoves, the "terrible," or, according to some, the " loud-roaring ")

Gorgon See also:

• MEDUSA

Medusa when her See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head was cut off by See also:

• PERSEUS

Perseus . 'See also:

• BELLEROPHON, or BELLEROPHONTES

Bellerophon caught him as he drank of the See also:

• 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 Peirene on the Acrocorinthus at See also:

• CORINTH
• CORINTH, ISTHMUS OF

Corinth, or received him tamed and bridled at the hands of See also:

• ATHENA (the Attic form of the Homeric Athene, also called Athenaia, Pallas Athene, Pallas)

Athena (See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar, 01. xiii . 63; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias ii . 4) . Mounted on See also:

• PEGASUS (from Gr. lrgyor, compact, strong)

Pegasus, Bellerophon slew the See also:

• CHIMAERA

Chimaera and overcame the Solymi and the See also:

• AMAZONS

Amazons, but when he tried to See also:

• FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly to See also:

• HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

heaven on the horse's back he threw him and continued his heavenward course (See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus ii . 3) . Arrived in heaven, Pegasus served See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus, fetching for him his See also:

• THUNDER

thunder and See also:

• LIGHTNING

lightning (See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod, Theog . 281) . Hence some have thought that Pegasus is a See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol of the thundercloud . According to O . Gruppe (Griechischc Mythologic, i .

75, 123) Pegasus, like Anion the fabled offspring of See also:

• DEMETER

Demeter and See also:

• POSEIDON

Poseidon, was a curse-horse, symbolical of the rapidity with which curses were fulfilled . In later See also:

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

legend he is the horse of Eos, the See also:

• MORNING

morning . The erroneous derivation from 1nry* " a spring of See also:

• WATER

water," may have given See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth to the legends which connect Pegasus with water; e.g. that his See also:

• FATHER

father was Poseidon, that he was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the springs of Ocean, and that he had the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of making springs rise from the ground by a See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow of his hoof . When Mt See also:

• HELICON
• HELICON (Fr. helicon, bombardon circulaire; Ger. Helikon)

Helicon, enchanted by the See also:

• SONG

song of the See also:

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

Muses, began to rise to heaven, Pegasus stopped its ascent by stamping on the ground (See also:

• ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

Antoninus Liberalis 9), and where he struck the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth See also:

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

Hippocrene (horse- spring), the See also:

• FOUNTAIN (Late Lat. fontana, from ions, a spring)

fountain of the Muses, gushed forth (Pausanias ii . 31, ix . 31) . But there are facts that speak for an See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent mythological connexion between horses and water, e.g. the sacredness of the horse to Poseidon, the epithets Hippios and Equester applied to Poseidon and See also:

• NEPTUNE
• NEPTUNE (Lat. NEPTUNUS)

Neptune, the Greek fable of the origin of the first horse (produced by Poseidon striking the ground with his See also:

• TRIDENT (Lat. tridens, lri-, tres, three and dens, tooth)

trident), and the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom in Argolis of sacrificing horses to Poseidon by drowning them in a well . From his connexion with Hippocrene Pegasus has come to be regarded as the horse of the Muses and hence as a symbol of See also:

• POETRY

poetry . But this is a See also:

• MODERN

modern attribute of Pegasus, not known to the ancients, and dating only from the Orlando innamorato of See also:

• BOIARDO, MATTEO MARIA, COUNT (1434-1494)

Boiardo . See monograph by F . Hannig, Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen (1902), vol. viii., pt . 4 .