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Mar 26, 2020
This week’s themeTerms originating in horses This week’s words horse marine chevalier unhorse hippocrene horse sense 
Story of Minerva - The Muses Showing Minerva Hippocrene Waters of the River that Brings Out Pegasus, 1696
Art: René-Antoine Houasse
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargHippocrene
PRONUNCIATION:
(HIP-uh-kreen, -kree-nee)
MEANING:
noun: Poetic or literary inspiration.
ETYMOLOGY:
In Greek mythology, Hippocrene was a spring on Mt. Helicon and was
created by a stroke of Pegasus’s hoof.
From Greek hippos (horse) + krene (fountain, spring). Ultimately from the
Indo-European root ekwo- (horse), which also gave us equestrian,
equitant,
hippodrome, and
hippology. Earliest documented
use: 1598.
USAGE:
“But, instead of merely serving as bistros for coffee and cake
connoisseurs, these cafés also serve as a Hippocrene of sorts for
writers to brew up inspiration.” Nida Sayed; Riverside Rendezvous; The Times of India (New Delhi); Jun 14, 2015. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through
the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may
have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to
choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's
own way. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust
survivor (26 Mar 1905-1997)
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