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you should suffer a deserved defeat, and you must add unmerited abuse to heighten your offence, and since by this appears the end of our endurance, we shall certainly proceed to punish you according to the limit of our wrath.' But these Emathian sisters laughed to scorn our threatening words; and as they tried to speak, and made great clamour, and with shameless hands made threatening gestures, suddenly stiff quills sprouted from out their finger-nails, and plumes spread over their stretched arms; and they could see the mouth of each companion growing out into a rigid beak. – And thus new birds were added to the forest. – While they made complaint, these Magpies that defile our groves, moving their stretched-out arms, began to float, suspended in the air. And since that time their ancient eloquence, their screaming notes, their tiresome zeal of speech have all remained.
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The greatest of our number ended thus her learned songs; and with concordant voice the chosen Nymphs adjudged the Deities, on Helicon who dwell, should be proclaimed the victors. But the vanquished nine began to scatter their abuse; to whom rejoined the goddess; 'Since it seems a trifling thing that
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In the 2018 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Nikolai says "A little learning is a dangerous thing, drink deep or taste not the Pieran Spring, so goes the poem. I understand its meaning". Referring to the journey ahead, leading to the finale of the Aether Zombies storyline.
470:(Focus Texts: For Classical Language Study) by Philip Mayerson, 2001, page 82: "... the Muses who were said to have frolicked about the Pierian springs soon after their birth. The Castalian spring on Mount Parnassus ..." 403:, the protagonist Seth Brundle succumbs to madness and disease as the result of a science experiment. He rants at the short-sightedness of his lover, proclaiming "drink deep, or taste not the plasma spring!". 101:. The Muses "were said to have frolicked about the Pierian springs soon after their birth". The spring is believed to be a fountain of knowledge that inspires whoever drinks from it. 516: 390:'s poem, "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk", the narrator reminisces about the scandal that was her "neglect of the waters Pierian" in favor of "the habit of love." 339:
refers to Pierian "roses" in a critique of the cheap aesthetic of his time, which in his opinion has replaced a true appreciation of art and knowledge:
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Sappho, too, refers to the roses of the Pierian spring, in her poem "To One Who Loved Not Poetry," in the mid-600 B.C.
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Satyricon of Petronius, from the 1st century AD, at the end of section 5
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V. The metamorphoses into magpies comes at the end of the book:
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nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or thereafter,
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And rush in a flood from a heart that is loved by the muse!
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Come! Gird up thy soul! Inspiration will then force a vent
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but thou shalt wander obscure even in the house of Hades,
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An early reference to the Pierian spring is found in the
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116:tells this tale after explaining the origin of the 61:The Pierian spring is sometimes confused with the 468:Classical Mythology in Literature, Art, and Music 306:Th' increasing prospects tire our wand'ring eyes, 297:And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; 762: 291:Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, 279:Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; 270:Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, 309:Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!" 282:But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise 273:In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, 571: 288:So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, 422: 264:There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 261:Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: 158:His animum succinge bonis: sic flumine largo 346:"Which the highest cultures have nourished" 285:New distant scenes of endless science rise! 156: 578: 564: 303:The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, 427:. London: Everyman Classics. p. 15. 300:But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey 233:for thou hast not of the roses of Pieria; 276:While from the bounded level of our mind 258:"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 14: 763: 294:Th' eternal snows appear already past, 104:The name of the spring comes from the 559: 495:, Project Gutenberg's The Satyricon 357:Long since superseded the cultivation 335:In his poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley", 267:And drinking largely sobers us again. 160:plenus Pierio defundes pectore verba. 344:Conduct, on the other hand, the soul 194: 150: 108:, the gaggle of girls (daughters of 72: 328:, as Fire Captain Beatty chastizes 313: 24: 120:spring in his 8 AD narrative poem 27:Aquatic feature in Greek mythology 25: 807: 551: 245: 237:flitting among the shadowy dead. 481:Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2 377:mentions the Pierian Spring in 534: 522: 509: 498: 486: 473: 461: 441: 416: 380:Moloch: or, This Gentile World 318:The opening stanza appears in 13: 1: 410: 229:But thou shalt ever lie dead, 218:φοιτάσεις πεδ' ἀμαύρων νεκύων 206:ἔσσετ' οὐδὲ †ποκ'†ὔστερον· οὐ 200:κατθάνοισα δὲ κείσῃ οὐδέ ποτα 776:Ancient Greek sacred springs 81:was said to be near ancient 7: 423:Chesterfield, Lord (1746). 212:τῶν ἐκ Πιερίας· ἀλλ' ἀφάνης 10: 812: 448:Orpheus and Greek Religion 715: 649: 593: 585: 355:The sale of half-hose has 198: 750:Muses in popular culture 353:Beside this thoroughfare 350:Dr. Johnson flourished; 93:, also the location of 362: 227: 167: 157: 154: 136: 89:, a region of ancient 341: 131: 56:An Essay on Criticism 786:Ancient Greek poetry 250:Lines 215 to 232 of 528:(Available online * 425:Letters to His Son 359:Of Pierian roses. 348:To Fleet St. where 209:γὰρ πεδέχῃς βρόδων 67:Letters to His Son 42:was sacred to the 796:Muses (mythology) 771:Springs of Greece 758: 757: 365:Sir William Jones 243: 242: 190: 189: 73:Classical sources 16:(Redirected from 803: 580: 573: 566: 557: 556: 546: 545: 538: 532: 526: 520: 513: 507: 502: 496: 490: 484: 477: 471: 465: 459: 445: 439: 438: 420: 395:David Cronenberg 314:Later references 222: 216: 210: 204: 195: 182:—Translated (by 173: 162: 151: 128: 63:Castalian Spring 21: 811: 810: 806: 805: 804: 802: 801: 800: 761: 760: 759: 754: 711: 645: 589: 584: 554: 549: 540: 539: 535: 527: 523: 514: 510: 503: 499: 491: 487: 479:E.C. 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Index

Pierian spring
Greek mythology
Macedonia
Pierides
Muses
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
Castalian Spring
Letters to His Son
sacred spring
Leivithra
Pieria
Macedonia
Mount Olympus
Orpheus
Pierides
King Pierus
Ovid
Heliconian
Metamorphoses
Satyricon
Petronius
W.C. Firebaugh
Pope's poem
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag
Ezra Pound
Sir William Jones
Caissa

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