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hip·po·crene
\ˈhipəˌkrēn, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈkrēnē\ noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: from Hippocrene, a fountain in ancient Greece that was fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of the winged horse Pegasus and that was supposed to be a source of poetic inspiration, from Latin, from Greek Hippokrēnē, from hippo- hipp- + krēnē fountain
: poetic inspiration
< we shrink from a cup of the purest Hippocrene after the critics' solar microscope — J.R.Lowell >
< a loiterer by the waves of Hippocrene — O.W.Holmes †1894 > |