Castalia
noun
a spring on Mount Parnassus: in ancient Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses and believed to be a source of inspiration
Castalian
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a word derived from
Castalia.
Example Sentences
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It was holiday time; the days were too hot for work or exercise, and I even found the Castalian fount run dry.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
Her fountains ministered to bodily ailments—Vapours, Winds, Gouts, Quinsies, Consumptions, Fevers quartan and tertian—without pretending to the power of love-philtres or the sparkle of the Castalian Spring.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
They might appeal to the Castalian virgins in their invocations, but William Rogers' Elizabeth was the Muse that rose before their eyes.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Sprinkled with dews from the Castalian font, Fain would I re-baptize thee, and confer A purer spirit, and a nobler name.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
