Definition of Pegasos
Pegasus, the winged horse, begotten of Poseidon, who sprung from the
body of Medusa when Perseus swooped off her head, and who with a stroke
of his hoof broke open the spring of Hippocrene on Mount Helicon, and
mounted on whom Bellerophon slew the Chimera, and by means of which he
hoped, if he had not been thrown, to ascend to heaven, as Pegasus did
alone, becoming thereafter a constellation in the sky; this is the winged
horse upon whose back poets, to the like disappointment, hope to scale
the empyrean, who have not, like Bellerophon, first distinguished
themselves by slaying Chimeras.
- Wikipedia
Peg"a*sus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A winged horse fabled to
have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted
for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring
fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account
he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of
poetic inspiration.
Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace.
Byron.
2. (Astron.) A northen constellation
near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the
brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of
Pegasus.
3. (Zoöl.) A genus of small
fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard,
bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and
China.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (mythology): A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon.
- (constellation): A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.
- (zoology): A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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