[404] Pausanias. l. 4. p. 282.
Strabo mentions Caucones in Elea. l. 8. p. 531. The Caucones are also mentioned by Homer. Odyss. γ. v. 366.
Caucane in Sicily was of the same purport, mentioned by Ptolemy. l. 3. c. 4.
[405] Apollonius Rhodius styles it Cutais: Κυταϊδος ηθεα γαιης. l. 4. v. 512.
[406] See De Lisle's curious map of Armenia and the adjacent parts of Albania, &c.
[407] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 40.
There was a river Acheron in Elis. Strabo. l. 8. p. 530. And the same rites were observed in honour of the θεος μυιαγρος, that were practised in Cyrene. Clement. Cohort. p. 33.
In Pontus was a river Acheron. Ειθα δε και προχοαι ποταμου Αχεροντος εασιν. Apollon. Argonaut. l. 2. v. 745. also ακρα Αχερουσια. The like to be found near Cuma in Campania: and a story of Hercules driving away flies there also. Ῥωμαιοι δε απομυιῳ Ἡρακλει (θυουσι). Clementis Cohort. ibid.
[408] Varro de Ling. Lat. lib. 5. p. 49. altered to Novella by some, contrary to the authority of the best MSS. See Scaliger's notes. p. 81. edit. anno 1619. Dordrechti.
See Selden de Diis Syris. Syntag. 2. c. 2. p. 174. In vetustioribus excusis de Re Rusticâ non Novella, sed Covella legitur. Covella autem Cœlestis, sive Urania interpretatur.