a. [ad. L. caballīn-us, f. caballus horse.] Of or belonging to horses; equine. Caballine Aloes (see quot.). Caballine fountain = L. fons caballinus, the fountain Hippocrene of Greek poetry, fabled to have been produced by a stroke of the foot of Pegasus the winged horse of the Muses; hence = ‘fountain of inspiration.’
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, Prol. 13. In Cirrha by Helycon the welle … called … the fountayne Caballyn.
a. 1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, III. 899. The font Caballine, Quhair all vertew dois flurische with fusioun.
a. 1616. Beaumont, Ex-ale-tation of Ale (R.). Having washed their throat With the caballine spring of a pot of good ale.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 220. The Aloes is divided into three Kinds, the Succotrine, the Hepatick, and the Caballine.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. s.v. Aloes, The Cabaline Aloes … call’d Cabaline, because it’s given to diseased Horses.
1803. T. G. Fessenden (‘C. Caustic’), Poet. Petit. agst. Galvanising Trumpery., III. (ed. 2), 101, note. Their munificence to the Professor for his services to the caballine race.
1878. J. Thomson, Plenip. Key, 9. This bottle; it’s my true and only Helicon; it’s my caballine fountain.
