Parnassus

English right|thumb|Pallas Athene Visiting Apollo on the Parnassus (1703) by Arnold Houbraken Alternative forms en Parnassos Etymology From en la Parnāsus, from en grc Παρνασσός. Proper noun en mountain in central c/Greece, adjacent the site of the ancient city of Delphi, that in Greek mythology was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs and was the home of the Muses. XXXVII 57 Go down beside thy native rill,⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet,⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweetAbout the ledges of the hill. 1 Phocis separates the Aonian from the Actæan region; a fruitful land while it was a land; but at that time it had become a part of the sea, and a wide plain of sudden waters. There a lofty mountain rises towards the stars, with two tops, by name Parnassus, and advances beyond the clouds with its summit. en figuratively en figuratively The home of poetry, literature and learning. en 1828 w:Thomas Keightley The Fairy Mythology II London William Harrison Ainsworth 128 Such lovely and truly British poetry cannot be too often brought to view; we shall therefore insert in thk part of our work several of these gems of our Parnassus, distinguishing by a different character such acts and attributes as appear properly to belong to the Fairy of popular belief. XLIII His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books. He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded. en 2001 w:William Zinsser On Writing Well 70 https://archive.org/details/onwritingwellcla00zins_0/page/70/mode/1up Every day I see in the paper that some situations are decidedly better and others are decidedly worse, but I never know how decided the improvement is, or who did the deciding, just as I never know how eminent a result is that's eminently fair, or whether to believe a fact that's arguably true. "He's arguably the best pitcher on the Mets," the preening sportswriter writes, aspiring to Parnassus, which Red Smith reached by never using words like "arguably." en small town dist/Hurunui north r/Canterbury c/New Zealand, named after Mount Parnassus. NZ Topo Map Derived terms en grass of Parnassus en Parnassian en Parnassianism Translations mountain Catalan: ca Pàrnas m Finnish: fi Parnassos French: fr Parnasse m Galician: gl Parnaso German: de Parnass m Italian: it Parnaso m Portuguese: pt Parnaso m Spanish: es Parnaso m home of poetry, literature and learning Finnish: fi Parnassos German: de Parnass m References Further reading Mount Parnassus Parnassus (disambiguation) en terms derived from toponyms Latin Proper noun Parnassus<2.loc> la Parnāsus Declension Parnassus<2.loc>