Hel′icon. A mountain in Bœotia sacred to the Muses, from which place the fountain Hippocrene flowed.
“Yet still the doating rhymer dreams,
And sings of Helicon’s bright streams;
But Helicon for all his clatter
Yields only uninspiring water.”
Broom, 1720.
Helico′nides. A name of the Muses, from Mount Helicon.
Heliop′olis, in Elysium, was the city of the sun.
He′lios. The Grecian sun-god, who went home every evening in a golden boat which had wings.
Hel′iotrope. Clytie was turned into this flower by Apollo. See Clytie.