[70] Ἐνοίχθωη, Σεισίχθων, Ἐννοσίγδαιος, from ἐνίθω and σείω, to shake, and χθὰν and γαῖα, the earth.
[71] From βραζω, to boil over.
[72] Strabo gives Ophiusa as one of the names of Rhodes, and Homer mentions the golden shower:—
καί σφιν Θεσπέσιον πλοῦτου κατέχευε κρονιὼν.—Il. β. vi. 70.
As also does Pindar, Ol. vii. 63.
[73] From κλίνω, to lay down.
[74] From χάσμα, a chasm, derived from χαίνω, to gape.
[75] This is a tale told by Plato in the Timæus (which is believed to have no foundation).
[76] The destruction of Helice is related in Diodorus Sic. xiv. 48; cf. Ov. Met. xv. 290.
[77] The lake Ciminus was near Centumcellæ, cf. Virg. Æn. vii. 697. The town of Saccumum is not mentioned by any other writer.