Parnassus

they come, the feathered tribes, leaving their nests on Parnassus.

the peaks of Parnassus, where no man may set foot, are all ablaze and hail the car of day for mortal’s service.

ye peaks of Parnassus that rear your rocky heads to heaven, where Bacchus with uplifted torch of blazing pine bounds nimbly amid his bacchanals, that range by night!

But lend your tongue to the city of Protogeneia, where, by the ordinance of Zeus with the flashing thunderbolt, Pyrrha and Deucalion came down from Parnassus and made their first home, and without the marriage-bed they founded a unified race of stone offspring, and the stones gave the people their name, Arouse for them a clear-sounding path of song;

They won six times beneath the brow of Parnassus;

And the name of the episcopate has now passed to wretched house-bred slaves—no one of God's servants choosing to put himself forward in their place, but only the desperate, such as those now sent in by Anysius, the nursling of Euippius, and by Ecdicius of Parnassus, whose appointer left him in the churches as an evil provision for himself in the life to come.

And Apollo, since he did not disobey Zeus, carried the mangled corpse to Parnassus and laid it down.

Calling to his servants Go, some to Helicon, others to the glens of Parnassus, and bid woodmen to cut me logs of oak, and when they are brought to the town, pile up a stack of wood all round the altar on either side, and set fire to it and burn them all alive, that they may learn that the dead no longer rules this land, but that for the present I am king.

For the mother, leaving the famous birth-place, brought him from the ridges of the sea to the heights of Parnassus, with its gushing waters, which celebrate the revels for Dionysus.

From the Tyrian swell of the sea I came, a choice offering for Loxias from the island of Phoenicia, to be a slave to Phoebus in his halls, where he dwells under the snow-swept peaks of Parnassus;

For, from his home beneath Parnassus,

When the Phocians were besieged on Parnassus, they had with them the diviner Tellias of Elis;

The peak of Parnassus called Tithorea, which rises by itself near the town Neon, has room enough for a multitude of people.

Most of the men went up to the peaks of Parnassus and carried their goods into the Corycian cave, but some escaped to Amphissa in Locris.

And thence you went speeding swiftly to the mountain ridge, and came to Crisa beneath snowy Parnassus, a foothill turned towards the west:

With tireless feet they approached the ridge and straightway came to Parnassus and the lovely place where they were to dwell honored by many men.

But if you will be moved by me —for you, lord, are stronger and mightier than I, and your strength is very great —build at Crisa below the glades of Parnassus:

their heads are besprinkled with white meal, and they dwell under a ridge of Parnassus.

A marvellous dream came and told me these things, and I have asked the oracle at Castalia whether it must be pursued;

Phoebus, lord of Lycia and Delos, you who love the Castalian spring of Parnassus, may you willingly put these wishes in your thoughts, and make this a land of fine men.