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Pimpleis

Πιμπληίς

(Πιμπληίς), or Pimplea, a surname of the Muses, derived from Mount Pimplias in Pieria, which was sacred to them. Some place this mountain in Boeotia, and call Mount Helicon Πιμπλείας κοπή. (Strab. x. p.471; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.25; Lycoph. 275; Hor. Carm. 1.26. 9; Anthol. Palat. 5.206.)

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.