(anc. geog.) the fountain of song, was situated in Magnesia, a district of Macedonia, annexed to Thessaly; distant from the town of Libethra, which stood on mount of Olympus, where it verges towards Macedonia: hence the Muses are called Libethrides, (Virgil.) Strabo places on Helicon, not only Hippocrene, and the temple of the Muses, but also the cave of the nymphs Libethrides.

LIBETHRIUS Mons, (anc. geog.) a mountain of Boeotia, distant from Coronea 40 stadia; where stood the statues of the Muses, and of the nymphs, surnamed Libethrine. A mountain probably conjoined with, or at least very near to, Helicon.