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CABALLINE

Volume 5 · 81 words · 1810 Edition

denotes something belonging to horses; thus caballine aloes is so called, from its being chiefly used for purging horses; and common brimstone is called sulphur caballicum for a like reason.

CABALLINUM in Ancient Geography, a town of the Ædui in Gallia Celtica; now Chalon sur Saone, which see.

CABALLINUS in Ancient Geography, a very clear fountain of Mount Helicon in Boeotia; called Hippocrene by the Greeks, because opened by Pegasus on striking the rock with his hoof, and hence called Pegasus.