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Usage examples of helicon.

The chaste daughters of Apollo willingly left the slopes of Helicon and Parnassus at his call.

Before setting about the task, Bellerophon consulted the seer Polyeidus, and was advised to catch and tame the winged horse Pegasus, beloved by the Muses of Mount Helicon, for whom he had created the well Hippocrene by stamping his moon-shaped hoof.

Citizens of Trantor, even one offworlder, from Helicon, oddly enough, my home world.

He had brought the image with him from Helicon, decades before, yet had only mounted it in this large frame a year ago.

He had been born beneath the wide skies of Helicon, and had at first found these covered environs a little daunting, even depressing, but his long decades on Trantor had gradually inured him.

How nice it would be not to think of death and decay, to be elsewhere, on Helicon perhaps, learning anew how to live without fear beneath the skythe sky!

How she would startle the dull, insipid, tea-table simperers on our Helicon--nay, with what scorn she would traverse the Helicon itself.

One of them, I guess, must be Mount Helicon, home to my Muse and her sisters, if sisters she has.

The artless Helicon I boast is youth-- should either not know, or should seem not to know, so much about his own ancestry.

Merrit was from cold, mountainous Helicon, and he was already sick of the steamy humidity after less than six hours on-planet.

Before me rolled wave after wave of the Parnassian chain, divided by deep lateral valleys, while Helicon, in the distance, gloomed like a thunder-storm under the weight of gathered clouds.

John Hopkins and Robert Wisdom completed the translation of the Psalms, which Fuller in his history says was at first derided and scoffed at as piety rather than poetry, adding that the good gentleman had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon.

Helicon is a fairly homogeneous world, culturally speaking, and we tend to cling to our private ways firmly because we're overshadowed by our neighbors.

Helicon is a fairly homogeneous world, culturally speaking, and we tend to cling to our private ways firmly because were overshadowed by our neighbours.

For they cannot tell what is the nature of the soul, whether it be born or on the contrary find its way into men at their birth, and whether it perish together with us when severed from us by death or visit the gloom of Orcus and wasteful pools or by divine decree find its way into brutes in our stead, as sang our Ennius who first brought down from delightful Helicon a crown of unfading leaf, destined to bright renown throughout Italian clans of men.