BOOK II. cvi. 228-231 



above it. The swamp of Jupiter Ammon is cold by 

 day and hot at night. A spring in the Cave-dwellers' 

 territory ealled the Fountain of the Sun is sweet and 

 very cold at midday, but then gradually warming, 

 towards the middle of the night it becomes spoilt 

 owing to its heat and bitter taste. The source of 

 the Po always di-ies up at midday in summer as if 

 taking a siesta. A spring on the Island of Tenedos 

 after midsummer always overflows from 9 to 12 p.m. ; 

 and the spring Inopus on the island of Delos sinks 

 or rises in the same way as the Nile and at the same 

 times. On a small island in the sea at the mouth of 

 the river Timavus there are hot springs that grow 

 larger and smaller with the rise and fall of the tide. 

 In the Pitino district across the Apennines the river 

 Novanus is always hot at midsummer and dried up at 

 midwinter. In the district of Falerii all the water 

 makes oxen that drink it white. The Blackwater 

 in Boeotia makes sheep black, the Cephisus flowing 

 from the same lake makes them white, the Peneus 

 again makes them black, and the river Xanthus at 

 lUum red, which gives the river its name. Mares 

 pastured on the plains watered by the river Astaces 

 on the Black Sea suckle their foals with black milk. 

 The spring called Neminie in the district of Reate 

 rises now in one place and now in another, indicating 

 a change in the price of corn. A spring in the harbour 

 at Brindisi always suppUes pure water for mariners. 

 The sUghtly acid spring caUed Lyncestis makes men 

 tipsy, Uke wine ; the same occurs in Paphlagonia and 

 in the territory of Cales." 



It is accredited by the Mucianus who was three 

 times consul that the water flowing from a spring 

 in the temple of Father Liber on the island of 



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