3* UNIVERSAL ERUDITION; 



there a temple. There alfo was the fountain 

 Caftalia, into which Apollo had metamorphofed 

 a nymph that he loved, and had given to its 

 waters the power of making all who drank of 

 them poets. At the foot of Parnafius flowed 

 the river Hippocrene, that had the fame virtue ; 

 and the fource of which was opened by a ftroke 

 of the foot of the horfe Pegafus. This river 

 nouriflied a great number of fwans, that were 

 regarded as facred. Pegafus was a winged horfe, 

 that belonged to Apollo, and grazed on the 

 fummit of ParnafTus. He fprang from the blood 

 of Medufa, when Perfeus cut off her head, which 

 was placed among the ftars. Such was the de- 

 licious abode of Apollo, the fon of Jupiter and 

 Latona, who was born, with his twin filler Diana, 

 in the ifland Delos. He killed the Cyclops who 

 forged the thunder bolts with which Jupiter had 

 overthrown his fon ^fculapius ; but for that 

 prefumption, he was forced to leave heaven, and 

 to become an inhabitant of the earth. He 

 guarded the oxen of Admetus ; he aided Nep- 

 tune to build the walls of Troy , and Alcotheus 

 in forming the labyrinth. He killed the dra- 

 gon or ferpent Python. He invented mufic and 

 phyfic ; and was honoured as the god of poets 

 and phyficians. He was reprefented as a young 

 man, without a beard, his head furrounded with 

 rays, and bearing in his hand a bow, or a lyre. 

 As the ancients denoted the fun by the name of 

 Apollo, they fometimes reprefented him alfo as 

 feated in a chariot, drawn by two white horfes, 



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