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Pegasus|ˈpɛgəsəs|
[L., a. Gr. Πήγασος, f. πηγή spring, fount, named from the πηγαί or springs of Ocean, near which Medusa was said to have been killed. Formerly also, as in Fr., ˈPegase, in ME. Pegasee.]
1. Gr. and Lat. Mythol. The winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when slain by Perseus, and with a stroke of his hoof to have caused the fountain Hippocrene to well forth on Mount Helicon. Hence, by modern writers (first in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato c 1490), represented as the favourite steed of the Muses, and said allusively to bear poets in the ‘flights’ of poetic genius.
α1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C vj b/2 Against the Chimer here stoutly must he fight, Here must he vanquish the fearefull Pegasus. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 66 Then entred a person called Reaport,..sitting on a flyeng horse wt wynges & fete of gold called Pegasus. 1592Davies Immort. Soul i. vii. (1714) 21 When she, without a Pegasus, doth fly. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 35 The soules swift Pegasus, the fantasie. a1657Lovelace Falcon 44 The heron mounted doth appear On his own Peg'sus a lanceer. 1711Shaftesbury Charact. v. iii. i. (1737) II. 382 For this purpose I will allow you the pegasus of the poets. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. ix, Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace. 1846Longfellow (title) Pegasus in Pound.
βc1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 199 Lyk the Pegasee The hors þat hadde wynges for to flee. c1439Lydg. Lyfe St. Albon (1534) A ij, With full swyfte wynges of the pegasee. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. v. (Parl. Beasts) xiv, The war⁓wolf and the pegase perillous.
attrib. and Comb.1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 8 Th' amber-weeping Pegase-hoofe-made fount. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie viii, The spirits Pegase Fantasie Should hoyse the soule from such base slauery. 1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. i, Awake sad Mercurie And Pegase-winged pace the milkie way. 1639Sir W. Alexander Comm. Verses in Drumm. of Hawth.'s Wks. (1711) p. iv, Ne're did Apollo raise on pegase wings A muse more near himself.
b. Her. A winged horse as a bearing, etc.
1562Leigh Armorie 202 b, He beareth Azure, A Pegasus Argent, called the horse of honour. 1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1332/4 For his crest an helmet mantled, a Pegassus holding in his mouth an oaken branch. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 251 Supporters. Two Pegasusses argent, wings, crests, tails, and hoofs, or. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xx. §2. 334.
c. Astron. One of the northern constellations, figured as a winged horse, containing three stars of the 2nd magnitude forming with one star of Andromeda a large square (the square of Pegasus).
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Pegasus, Perseus's winged Horse, a Celestial Constellation. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. §355. 165 The square of Pegasus is a very marked object.
2. Zool. A genus of fishes, typical of the family Pegasidæ, of peculiar form, with body somewhat like a horse's head, and one dorsal and one anal fin, suggesting wings; also called flying sea-horses.
1835Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XII. 227/2. 1847 Carpenter Zool. §518 The Pegasus..the pectoral fins are large, and are spread out in a wing-like manner; whence these curious Fishes have derived their name, which signifies Flying Horses.
Hence † Pegaˈsarian, Pegaˈsean (-ˈsæan, -ˈseian), Peˈgasean (-ˈgasian) adjs. [L. Pēgasēi-us, Pēgase-us], pertaining to, connected with, or resembling Pegasus; swift; poetic; † ˈPegase v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to serve as a Pegasus to; ˈPegasid Zool., a fish of the family Pegasidæ (see 2); ˈPegasoid a., resembling Pegasus; belonging to the Pegasidæ.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 253 The *Pegasarian coursers of France, by the like change of Horses, run from Lyons to Rome in five or six days.
1614C. Brooke Ghost Rich. III, Poems (1872) 140 My wingèd horse did *pegase my desire.
1590T. Watson On Death Sir F. Walsingham Poems (Arb.) 153 Weepe yee sisters of the learned hill: That your *Pægasean springs may leap their bound. 1626Waller Navy 16 We..who can fear no Force But winged Troops, or Pegasean Horse. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. xxxii. 101 Death..with a Pegasean speede, flyes vpon vnwarie Man. 1647H. More Cupid's Conflict iii, An unexpected Pegaseian song. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 4 Above th' Olympian Hill.., Above the flight of Pegaséan wing. 1717Belgrade 6 Pardon,..that thus my Pen Should strive to raise its Pegaseian Flight. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. iii. 26 From earth upborne on Pegasean wings. 1923‘R. Crompton’ William Again iv. 59 ‘I feel’—his Pegasean imagination soared aloft on daring wings—‘I feel 's if I might die if I went to church this mornin' feelin' 's ill as I do now.’
1599Marston Sco. Villanie v, How now? What droupes the newe *Pegasian Inne? 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. ii, Ye Sisters of the Mountaine, Who waile his loss from the Pegasian Fountaine. |