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LIBETHRA

Volume 10 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

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