Chap. 13.] WATEHS WHICH PRODUCE INEBRIETY. 477 



Barae 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, 46 

 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 MEMORY, OR ARE PRODUCTIVE 



OF FORGETFULNESS. 



At the Temple 47 of the god Trophonius, in Bosotia, near the 

 river Hercynnus, there are two fountains, 48 one of which aids 

 the memory, while the other is productive of forgetfulness : 

 hence the names which they respectively bear. 



CHAP. 12. WATERS WHICH SHARPEN OR DULL THE SENSES. 



WATERS WHICH IMPROVE THE VOICE. 



Near the town of Cescum, in Cilicia, runs the river !N"us, 49 

 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 Zania, in Africa, there is a spring, the waters of 

 which render the voice more musical. 50 



CHAP. 13. WATERS WHICH CAUSE A DISTASTE FOR WINE. WATERS 



WHICH PRODUCE INEBRIETY. 



Eudoxus says that persons who drink the water 51 of Lake 

 Clitorius take a distaste for wine, and Theopompus asserts that 

 the waters of the springs already 52 named are productive of 

 inebriety. According to Mucianus, 53 there is a fountain at 



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

 Aristotle. 



47 Near the town of Lebadea, now Livadhia. 



48 One called "Mnemosyne," or Memory, and the other "Lethe," or 

 Forgetfulness. 



49 From the Greek vovf, " spirit," "mind," or "intelligence." Ajas- 

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

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



50 A fable invented by the priests, Ajasson thinks. 



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

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

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

 Pausanias. 52 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 



