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pierian
CIDE DICTIONARY
pierian, a. [L. Pierius, from Mount Pierus , in Thessaly, sacred to the Muses.].
Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses. [1913 Webster]
"Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
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THESAURUS
pierian
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, heroic, idyllic, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic
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