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Aonian   Listen
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Aonian  adj.  Pertaining to Aonia, in Boeotia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.
Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.






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"Aonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... you do? Will this word-weighing and picture-writing—the cold eulogies of pedants—the listless praises of literary idlers, content all the yearnings of your ambition? You were not made solely for the closet; 'The Dreams of Pindus, and the Aonian Maids' cannot endure through the noon of manhood. You are too practical for the mere poet, and too poetical to sink into the dull tenor of a learned life. I have never seen you, yet I know you—I read your spirit in your page; that aspiration for something better and greater than ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



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