(anc. geogr.), a fountain of mount Helicon, on the borders of Boeotia, sacred to the Muses. Some, as Ovid, make Hippocrene and Aganippe the same. See Aganippe.

HIPPOPHAGI (anc. geogr.), a people of Scythia, so called from their living on horse-flesh: the same at this day of the Tartars their descendants. Also a people of Persia (Ptolemy).