Libethrides
Λειβηθρίδες
(Λειβηθρίδες), or nymphae Libethrides, a name of the Muses, which they derived from the well Libethra in Thrace; or, according to others, from the Thracian mountain Libethrus, where they had a grotto sacred to them. (Verg. Ecl. 7.21; Mela, 2.3; Strab. ix. p.410, x. p. 471.) Servius (ad Eclog. l.c.) derives the name from a poet Libethrus, and Pausanias (9.34.4) connects it with mount Libethrius in Boeotia. (Comp. Lycoph. 275; Varro, de Ling. Lat. 7.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.