Ch^. 13.1 
WATEES WHICH PBODrCE IKEBEIETf. 
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^ame 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 growtlj of hair upon the body. 
CHAP. 11. WATEES WHICH AID THE MEMOEY, OE AEE PEODUCTIVE 
OF EOEaETETJLFESS. 
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. 
JN^ear 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 CAUSE A DISTASTE FOE WINE. WATERS 
WHICH PEODUCE INEEEIETY. 
Eudoxus says that persons who drink 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. 
One called "Mnemosyne," or Memory, and the other "Lethe,*'* or 
Forgetfulness. 
^9 From the Greek i/oiJ^, " spirit," "mind," or "intelligence." Ajas- 
son thinks it possible that its water may have assuaged vertigo, or ac- 
celerated the circulation of the blood, and that thence its reputation. 
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 Proetus were purified by Melampus. See the "Eliaca" of 
Pausanias. ^2 jn ^ q 106. 
^3 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 
