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GROVE OF THE MUSES. 
CHAP, the shepherd, mingling its sound with that of 
i.y _/ the bells upon the goats and the sheep, is 
heard at intervals, among the rocks, producing 
an effect happily adapted to the character and 
genius of the place. Higher up the mountain, at 
the distance of twenty stadia (two miles and a 
half) from this Grove, and from the fountain 
Aganippe, was the fountain Hippocrene, 
fabled to have sprung from the earth, when 
struck by the hoof of Pegasus ' : and here the 
inhabitants exhibited to Pausanias a most antient 
votive offering made of lead, " inscribed," says 
he, " with that poem of Hesiod's which is 
called ' Works.'" " 
Situation 
of the 
Fountain 
Hippo- 
crene. 
(1) 'Efrava/Savr; Ti tfraiia, i^o Tciu eiXffout toutsu as I'Jxofftv, iifTtt r, <reu 
^ctiraira aVX.?) rrii yri;. Pausan. Boeot. c. 51. p. 771. edit. Kuh7iii.-~ 
For the origin of this fable, see N'olc (2), page 94. 
(2) Ka/ fict uiXifshov iStixtuvat 'itia, h Ttiyh, rk -ptoXXk tiw'o toZ ^eovou \0.u- 
fidtr/iita,' yiyoetTTai "hi aurci rcc'E^ya. Ibid, 
