[9] Diod. Sic., iv. 18. See also Lucan, Pharsalia, vi. 345.
[10] Diod. Sic., iv. 18, who allows his readers to choose which version of the legend they prefer.
[11] See Strabo, x. 458. Diodorus also (iv. 35), giving a similar interpretation of the legends, tells us how Hercules hollowed out a new bed for the Achelous, thereby reclaiming a vast tract of exceedingly fertile land.
[12] Diod. Sic., iv. 18.
[13] Fouqué, Santorin et ses Eruptions, chap. iii.
[14] Carm. I., iv. 7.
[15] See this subject fully discussed by Grote, History of Greece, vol. i.
[16] Book vii. 129, see ante p. 37.
[17] Book ix. 429.
[18] See Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie, i. 502.