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. Serenus more truly distinguishes them, and ascribes the blending them to poetical license.