Parnassus

(-nas sus.) (Anc. Geog.) A celebrated Greek mountain, in Phocis, situate to the N.W. of Mt. Helicon, in N. Lat. 38° 35' 57", E. Lon. 22° 27' 36". The highest of its three summits has an altitude of 8,068 ft., and on its W. slope was Delphi, famous for its oracle, and also the Cast ali an fount. The highest peak was held sacred to Bacchus, and the rest to Apollo and the Muses-whence the saying of young poets " climbing Parna us." [s. 686]