Chap. 13.] WATEES WHICH PRODTJCE INEERIETT. All 



same authority, too, we learn that in certain localities, as in 

 the country of the Messapii, for instance, all the productions, 

 the cereals even, grow of a tawny colour ; and that at Lusi,^^ 

 in Arcadia, there is a certain fountain in which land-mice 

 live and dwell. The river Aleos, which passes through Ery- 

 thrse, promotes the growth of hair upon the body. 



CHAP. 1 1 . — WATERS WHICH AID THE MEMOEY, OS ABE PEODTJCTIVE 

 OF rOEGETFULNESS. 



At the Temple*'^ of the god Trophonius, in Boeotia, near the 

 river Hercynnus, there are two fountains,^^ one of which aids 

 the memory, while the other is productive of forgetfulness : 

 hence the names which they respectively bear. 



CHAP. 12. — WATEES WHICH SHAEPEN OE DULL THE SENSES. 

 WATEES WHICH IMPEOVE THE VOICE. 



Near the town of Cescum, in Cilicia, runs the river Nus,^^ 

 the waters of which, according to Yarro, sharpen the intellect ; 

 while those of a certain spring in the island of Cea dull the 

 senses. At Zama, in Africa, there is a spring, the waters of 

 which render the voice more musical.^ 



CHAP. 13. — WATEES WHICH CAirSE A DISTASTE FOR WINE. WATEUS 

 WHICH PRODUCE INEBEIETY. 



Eudoxus says that persons who diink the water^^ of Lake 

 Clitorius take a distaste for wine, and Theopompus asserts that 

 the waters of the springs already"' named are productive of 

 inebriety. According to Mucianus,^^ there is a fountain at 



'^^ This marvellous story appears to have been derived from the works of 

 Aristotle. 



"'■^ Near the town of Lebadea, now Livadhia. 



^s One called "Mnemosyne," or Memory, and the other "Lethe," or 

 Forgetfulness. 



^^ Frorn the Greek i/oug, " spirit," "mind," or "intelligence." i\jas- 

 son thinks it possible that its water may have assuaged vertigo, or ac- 

 celerated the circulation of the blood, and that thence its reputation. 



=0 A fable invented by the priests, Ajasson thinks. 



^^ See Ovid, Met. xv. 322. It sems to be uncertain whether it was at 

 this lake or the adjoining spring of Lusi above-mentioned, that the 

 daughters of Prostus were purified by Melampus. See the " Eliaca " of 

 Pausanias. '^" In B. ii. c. 106. 



53 See B. ii- c. 106. As Ajasson remarks, Mucianus should have had 

 the sense to see that it was only a juggle of the priests of Bacchus. He 



