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单词 corycian cave
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Corycian cave
Of or pertaining to the mountain cave of Corycus at the foot of Parnassus, sacred to the Muses, or to the nymph Corycia, daughter of Apollo; chiefly in Corycian cave, Corycian nymphs (the Muses).
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1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 140v The famous Ile (where the Coritian Nymphes Did lodge of yore).
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 12 Corician Nymphs, and hill-gods he adores.
1636 W. Saltonstall tr. Ovid Heroicall Epist. i. xix. 139 Cæa where Corycian Nymphs have, In Parnassus hill an old famous Cave.
1758 M. Akenside Hymn to Naiads in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems by Several Hands VI. 319 To the cave Corycian or the Delphic mount.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 53/1 The famous Corycian cave, a large grotto in the limestone rock, which afforded the people of Delphi a refuge during the Persian invasion.
1883 R. Whitelaw tr. Sophocles Antigone 1127 With nymphs Corycian in thy train.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 318/1 Parnassus was..hallowed by the worship of Apollo, of the Muses, and of the Corycian nymphs.
1908 Daily Chron. 7 July 3/3 He is..as enviable as the Corycian old man.
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