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Helicon
1520s, from Greek
Helikon
, mountain in Boeotia, sacred to the Muses, in which arose the fountains of Aganippe and Hippocrene. Literally "the tortuous mountain," from
helix
(genitive
helikos
) "spiral" (see
helix
).