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Pimple'is

Πιμπληίς), or Pimplea, a surname of the Muses, derived from Mount Pimplias in Pieria, which was sacred to them. Some place this mountain in Boeotia, and call Mount Helicon Πιμπλείας κοπή. (Strab. x. p.471; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.25; Lycoph. 275; Hor. Carm. 1.26. 9; Anthol. Palat. 5.206.)

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