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Castalia

Castalia · f

a fountain on Parnassus

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

Castălĭa — Lewis & Short

Castălĭa, ae, f., = *kastali/a,

I a fountain on Parnassus, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, Liv. Andron. ap. Fest. p. 310, b Müll.; Verg. G. 3, 293; Hor. C. 3, 4, 61; Stat. Th. 1, 698.—

II Hence the adjj.,

A Castă-lĭus, a, um, Castalian: fons, Plin. 4, 3, 4, § 8; Sen. Oedip. 229; cf. fontes, Stat. Th. 1, 565: arbor, the laurel, Prop. 3 (4), 3, 13. hence, umbra, Tib. 3, 1, 16: antrum, i. e. the cave of the oracle at Delphi, Ov. M. 3, 14.—

B Castălis, ĭdis, f., Castalian: unda, Mart. 9, 19 fin.: sorores, i. e. the Muses, id. 4, 14; also as subst.: Castalidum grex, id. 7, 12, 10.

In the wild

Castaliamque Tibullus, Elegiae 3.1.16
Castaliae Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.227
Castaliae Martial, Epigrammata 7.22.4
Castaliae Horace, Carmina 3.4
Castaliaeque Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 17
Castaliae Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.27

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Where it came from

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