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PIMBLIA (Ancient city) PIERIA
A place in Pieria, where Orpheus was said to have been born, and from which the
Muses obtained their epithet of Pimpleides and Pimpleiades among the Alexandrian
poets. (Orph. Fragm. 46; Pimplea dulcis, Horat. Carm. i. 26. 9; Stat. Silv. i.
4. 26.) Leake (Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 422) identified it with the elevated
situation of Litokhoro and its commanding prospect.
(Pimpleia). A town in the Macedonian province of Pieria, sacred to the Muses, who were hence called Pimpleides. Horace uses the form Pimplea in the singular, and not Pimpleis.
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