[L. Castalia, Gr. Κασταλία, pr. name.] Proper name of a spring on Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses; often used allusively.
1591. Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, 23.
| And the sweete waues of sounding Castaly | |
| With liquid foote doth slide downe easily. |
1600. Tourneur, Transf. Metamorph., lxxxvii. (1878), 172. Conuert each riuer to pure Castalie.
1748. Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. xxi. And brought them to another Castalie.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, IV. 275. I led you then to all the Castalies.
