PIMPLEIA
PIMPLEIA (
Πίμπλεια,
Strab. ix. p.410;
Apollon. 1.23; Lycophr. 273), a place in Pieria, where Orpheus was said to have been born, and from which the Muses obtained their epithet of
Πιμπληίδες and
Πιμπληιάδες among the Alexandrian poets. (Orph.
Fragm. 46; “Pimplea dulcis,”
Hor. Carm. 1.26. 9;
Stat. Silv. 1.4. 26.) Leake (
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 422) identified it with the elevated situation of
Litókhoro and its commanding prospect.
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