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On Helicon tripods have been dedicated, of which the oldest is the one which it is said Hesiod received for winning the prize for song at Chalcis on the Euripus. Men too live round about the grove, and here the Thespians celebrate a festival, and also games called the Museia. They celebrate other games in honor of Love, offering prizes not only for music but also for athletic events. Ascending about twenty stades from this grove is what is called the Horse's Fountain （Hippocrene）. It was made, they say, by the horse of Bellerophon striking the ground with his hoof.

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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    • W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 1.148
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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ERO´TIA
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), MUSE´A
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HE´LICON
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), THE´SPIAE
    • Smith's Bio, He'siodus
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