Helicon

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

(Mount/River) Ἑλικών, Ἑλικῶνος, ὁ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Hĕlĭcon: ōnis, m., = Ἑλικών,
I a mountain in Bœotia, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, now Zagará, Plin. 4, 3, 4, § 8; 4, 7, 12, § 25; Ov. M. 2, 219; 5, 254; 663; id. F. 4, 193; Verg. A. 7, 641; 10, 163 al.—
II Derivv.
   A Hĕlĭcōnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Helicon, Heliconian: collis, i. e. Helicon, Cat. 61, 1: Tempe, a beautiful valley on Mount Helicon, Ov. Am. 1, 1, 15: mella, Claud. Laud. Ser. 10: Naïs, id. Epigr. 5.—
   B Hĕlĭcōnĭădes, um, f., the Heliconians, a poet. designation of the Muses, Lucr. 3, 1037.—
   C Hĕlĭcōnis, ĭdis. f. adj., Heliconian: silva, Stat. S. 4, 4, 90.—In plur. subst.: Hĕlĭcōnĭdes, um, i. q. Heliconiades, the Muses, Pers. prooem. 4.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Hĕlĭcōn,¹² ōnis, m. (Ἑλικών), Hélicon [montagne de Béotie, consacrée à Apollon et aux Muses] : Plin. 4, 25 || -cōnĭus, a, um, de l’Hélicon : Catul. 61, 1 || -cōnis, ĭdis, f., de l’Hélicon : Stat. S. 4, 4, 90 || -cōnĭădĕs et -cōnĭdĕs, um, f., nom des Muses : Lucr. 3, 1037 ; Pers. Prol., 4.

Latin > German (Georges)

Helicōn, ōnis, Akk. ōnem u. ōna, m. (Ἑλικών), ein Gebirge in Böotien, bes. der eigentl. Berg in der Nähe von Thespiä, mit einem Apollotempel u. Musenhain, bei den Türken j. Zagara, Varro r. r. 3, 16, 7. Verg. Aen. 7, 641. Hor. ep. 2, 1, 128. Ov. met. 5, 254. Plin. 4, 8. Mart. Cap. 1. § 10: Heliconis alumnae, v. den Musen, Ov. fast. 4, 193. – Dav.: A) Helicōniades, um, f. (Ἑλικωνιάδες), die Bewohnerinnen des Helikon, v. den Musen, Lucr. u. Pers. – B) Helicōnis, idis, f. (Ἑλικωνίς), helikonisch, silva, Stat. – C) Helicōnius, a, um (Ἑλικώνιος), helikonisch, collis, Lucr.: mons, Catull.: Tempe, Ov.: mella, Claud.

Wikipedia EN

Helicon (also transliterated Helikon) was a river attested in antiquity, which existed near the Macedonian city of Dion in Pieria. Pausanias describes it as vanishing underground and resurfacing under a different name, and relates an Orphic tradition that the river sank after the maenads who had killed Orpheus tried to cleanse themselves of blood (and the ritual pollution of murder) in its waters.

There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. After a course of seventy-five stades the stream hereupon disappears under the earth. After a gap of about twenty-two stades the water rises again, and under the name of Baphyras instead of Helikon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dion (Dium) say that at first this River flowed on land throughout its course. But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter.

— Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8 (trans. W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod) (Greek travelogue c. 2nd A.D.)

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Mount Helicon (Ancient Greek: Ἑλικών; Greek: Ελικώνας) is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece, celebrated in Greek mythology. With an altitude of 1,749 metres (5,738 ft), it is located approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) from the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth. Some researchers[who?] maintain that Helicon was also the Greek name of mount Rocca Salvatesta in Sicily as a river started from it was called also Helikon.

In Greek mythology, two springs sacred to the Muses were located here: the Aganippe and the Hippocrene, both of which bear "horse" (ἵππος híppos) in their names. In a related myth, the Hippocrene spring was created when the winged horse Pegasus aimed his hoof at a rock, striking it with such force that the spring burst from the spot. On Mount Helicon too was the spring where Narcissus was inspired by his own beauty.