Hippocrene
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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek Ἱπποκρήνη (Hippokrḗnē, literally “horse spring”)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hippocrene
- (Greek mythology) A fountain on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses and formed by the hooves of Pegasus, the waters of which were supposed to give poetic inspiration when imbibed.
- 1819, John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 108:
- O for a beaker full of the warm South, / Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, / With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, / And purple-stained mouth; […]
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Goblet of Life:
- Maddening draughts of Hippocrene.
Translations
Fountain on Mount Helicon
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