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CASTALIA, or FONS CASTALIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 464 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTALIA, or FONS CASTALIUS , a celebrated See also:fountain in See also:Greece, now called the Fountain of St See also:John, which rises in a chasm of See also:Mount See also:Parnassus, in the neighbourhood of See also:Delphi. It was sacred to See also:Apollo and the See also:Muses, and its See also:water was used in the religious purifications of the " Pythian Pilgrims." From its connexion with the Muses it is sometimes referred to by See also:late See also:Greek writers (e.g. See also:Lucian, Jup. Trag. 3o) and Latin poets (erg. See also:Ovid, Am. i. 15.36) as a source of See also:inspiration, and this has passed into a See also:commonplace of See also:modern literature. According to some authorities the nymph Castalia was the daughter of See also:Achelous; according to others the water of the See also:spring was derived from the Boeotian Cephissus.

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