Once water from the
Castalian Spring provided cold baths for athletes training for the Pythian Games.
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Castalian Trading Limited,concerning the acquisition of 100% in LLC PD Rus forUSD 3 mn, plus extra remunerations and recovery ofdamages related to certain corporate actions.
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non hie ulla tibi speranda est fama, Properti: mollia sunt parvis prata terenda rotis' (3.3.13-8) When Phoebus, spying me from the
Castalian wood, Said, leaned upon a golden lyre by his cave: "Fool, what have you to do with such a stream?
(47) To this end, it is not surprising at all that Cervantes underscores the ridiculously absurd though quite natural event in which the same "poetisimos varones," upon their arrival at Parnassus, desperately and indecorously drink from the
Castalian font, some with great thirst, while others indignantly wash unspeakable things in its sacred waters: "Unos no solamente se hartaron,/sino que pies y manos y otras cosas/ algo mas indecentes se lavaron" (III, 370-72).
At first, teams combing the wreckage in
Castalian Springs thought it was a doll.
(2) Reulis and Cautelis has long and rightly been considered not only the intellectual manifesto of the circle of poets known as the
Castalian band, (3) but the king's cultural programme.
A tavern, like the Hippocrene or the
Castalian spring, is a form of watering hole.