according to Virgil, was the celebrated horse of Pollux (Geor., iii. 90), but, according to Ovid, it was Castor’s steed (Met., xii. 408).
“He, O Castor, was a courser worthy thee …
Coal-black his colour, but like jet it shone;
His legs and flowing tail were white alone.”
Dryden: Ovid’s Metamorphose, xii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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