CHAP. 7.—PLACES WHERE FISH EAT FROM THE HAND.
At many of the country-seats belonging to the Emperor the fish eat[51] from the hand: but the stories of this nature, told with such admiration by the ancients, bear reference to lakes formed by Nature, and not to fish-preserves; that at Elorus, a fortified place in Sicily, for instance, not far from Syracuse. In the fountain, too, of Jupiter, at Labranda,[52] there are eels which eat from the hand, and wear ear-rings,[53] it is said. The same, too, at Chios, near the Old Men’s Temple[54] there; and at the Fountain of Chabura in Mesopotamia, already mentioned.[55]