E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Poille.
An Apu’lian horse. The horses of Apulia were very greatly valued at one time. Richard, Archbishop of Armagh in the fourteenth century, says of St. Thomas, “Neither the mule of Spain, the courser of Apulia, the repe’do of Ethiopia, the elephant of Asia, the camel of Syria, nor the English ass, is bolder or more combative than he.”
