PARNASSUS

In Mythology, a celebrated mountain in ancient Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and, from the numerous objects of cla ical interest of which it formed the theatre, considered " holy" by the Greeks. On its side stood the city of Delphi, near which flowed the Cast ali an spring, the grand source of ancient inspiration; and from this cirenmsta iphodoal 'ang^agn, the word Parna us has come to signify poetry itself. A good collection of the Italian poets, printed at Milan, bears the title // Parna o Italiano. [s. 916]