OF BHAEATAVAR3A OR INPTA. 
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conspicuous beauty, by name Oangps, who, when inebriated, 
had once in ignorance connection with his mother. But 
when he had learnt on a subsequent day the truth from his 
nurse, he threw himself through excess of remorse into the 
•river Chliaros, which was called after him Ganges." The 
ancient edition of Plutarch, which was published by 
Xylander at Paris in 1624, contains in an Appendix at the 
end, the treatise On Rivers. It was edited, translated and 
annotated by Phil. Jacob. Maussacus. In its text occurs 
instead of the correct reading h^eiriovar] the false expres- 
sion AtoTTido-uarr] which Maussacus mistook for a name, 
though his predecessors the learned Natalis a Comitibus and 
Tumebus had already doubted the accuracy of the text, as 
Maussacus himself mentioned in a note which is quoted 
below. Colonel Wilford unfortunately accepted the wrong 
reading and built on it a new theory. According to Plutarch, 
^0 says the Colonel, Diopithuse was a Calaurian damsel, 
i)ut Wilford himself further changes Diopithuse into a man 
Dio-Pithus (for Deva-Pithu or Deo-Pithu), and declares 
thuse concubuit per inscitiam, sed interdiu cum a imtrice rei veritatem didi- 
cisset, ob dolorem extremum seipsum coniecit in fluvium Chliarum, qui ab 
■eo Gangis nortien assumpsit." 
However, in the 5th volume of llKovTapxov ' hiroffiraffixara Kat ''¥fvS(iriypa(pa 
'edited by Fr. Diibner, Paris, 1855, and in the edition of Flutarcki Libel/us 
de flmns, rec. et notis instr. Eud. Hercher, Lipsiae, 1857, we read : 
ra777)S 'iroraix6<! tan ttjj 'IvSias . . . Ovtos KaprjPap'ficTa^ rri nrjTpl Kar' &yvoiay 
Ovv^yytViTO. Tfj S'eirtouir^ riov rifj.tpav irapa t^s Tpo(pov ixadwv tt]V aXilOdav 
eavrhv ep^i^ey ei's ■jroTo.fxbv Wiapov . . . 
We read ah-eady on p. 72 in the Appendix to the edition of Maussacus 
entitled: Plutarchi librorum Mcpl iroratiZv Philippi Jac. Maussaci emenda- 
Jioneset notae : " Mirum est hoc nomen proprium Diopithusae nostros in- 
terpretes exercitos habuisse. Natalis a Comitibus sicco pede haec traasivit, 
quae tamen fida interpretatione opus habebant. Magnus Tumebus tanta 
est usus circumlocutions in vero hoc nomine explicando, ut plane eum ab 
scopo aberasse nemo bonus negare audeat ; qui per ebrietatem (inquit) inscienter 
matrem, divoriim qicempiam esse existimantem, cognovit. Ut concedamus 
AioTTido-ia-r) hie non esse nomen proprium tamen Graecis non convenit haec 
interpretatione Latina, vertendum enim esset simpliciter, Jovem eum esse 
credentem, sed hoc est nugari. AioTrifloutrrj nomen verum est Diopithusae." 
