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Helicon
Mountain in Boeotia sacred to the Muses, traditional source of poetic inspiration; Ennius is said to have brought its evergreen wreath to Italy.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §4.44 Helicon
The Boeotian mountain sacred to the Muses.
- On the Nature of Things §6.21 Helicon
A mountain of Boeotia sacred to the Muses; Lucretius notes a tree there said to kill with the smell of its flower.