Dictionary entry

Helicon

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hel″i‐con (hĕl″ĭ‐kŏn), n. [L., fr. Gr. Ελικὥν.] A mountain in Bœotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.

From Helicon's harmonious springs

A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.