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The fountain of Peirene at Corinth. Photo: Dick Cretcher.


Peirene (pye-REE-nee). Spring or fountain in Corinth, favorite watering hole of the flying horse Pegasus. The pool was said to have been formed from the tears of a mother lamenting the accidental killing of her son by the goddess Artemis.