in antiquity, a fountain of Boeotia, at mount Helicon, on the borders between Phocis and Boeotia, sacred to the muses, and running into the river Permessus; (Pliny, Pausanias.) Ovid seems to make Aganippe and Hippocrene the same. Solinus more truly distinguishes them, and attributes the blending them to poetical license.