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on Mount Parnassus; so called from the nymph Corycia. The Muses are sometimes called Corycĭdes (4 syl.).
“The immortal Muse
To your calm habitations, to the cave
Corycian … will guide his footsteps.”
Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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