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Hippocrene

Hippocrene · f

a fountain near Mount Helicon

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Hippocrēnē — Lewis & Short

Hippocrēnē, ēs, f., = *(ippokrh/nh,

I a fountain near Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses, and which is fabled to have been produced by a stroke of Pegasus's hoof, Ov. F. 5, 7; Sol. 7 med. (in Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 10: fons Pindaricus, and in Pers. prol. 1: fons caballinus).—

II Derivv.

A Hippocrē-naeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Hippocrene: fontes, Auct. de Laud. Herc. 5.—

B Hippocrēnĭdes, um, f., the Muses so named from the Hippocrene, Serv. Verg. E. 7, 21.

In the wild

Hippocrenen Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XIII.p2
Hippocrene Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.285
Hippocrene Ausonius, Epistularum 25.8
Hippocrenes Ovid, Fasti 5.7
Hippocrene Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.7.p2
Hippocrenes Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.207

Where it came from

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