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PARNASSUS

Volume 8 · 87 words · 1778 Edition

(Strabo, Pindar, Virgil), a mountain of Phocis, near Delphi, and the mounts Citheron and Helicon, with two tops, (Ovid, Lucan); the one called Cirrha, sacred to Apollo; and the other, Nisa, sacred to Bacchus, (Juvenal). It was covered with bay trees, (Virgil); and originally called Larndius, from Deucalion's larname or ark, thither conveyed by the flood, (Stephanus, Scholiast on Apollonius); after the flood, Parnassus; from Har Nahas, changing the b into p, the hill of divination or augury, Peucerus; the oracle of Delphi standing at its foot.