[173] Hyginus. Fab. 154. p. 266. not. 7. Ἑτεροι δε φασι, δικαιοτατον αυτον ειναι Νειλον. Eratosthenes. Catasterism. 37.
[174] Καλειται δε ὑπο των εγχωριων Βυχερνος. Αιγυπτιοι δε φασι Νειλον ειναι τον κατηστηρισμενον. Scholia in Aratum. p. 48.
[175] Plutarch de Fluminibus. vol. 2. p. 1154.
[176] Eustathius in Dionysium. v. 239. See Steph. Byzant. Αιγυπτος.
[177] Plutarch περι τον εκλελοιποτων χρηστηριων. vol. 1. p. 409.
[178] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1101. There was supposed to have been a person in Thessaly named Cycnus, the son of Apollo. He lived upon a lake Uria; which was so called from his mother.
Inde lacus Hyries videt, et Cycnëia Tempe,
Quæ subitus celebravit olor. Ovid. Metam. l. 7. v. 371.
Uria was also a river in Bœotia: and here was a Cycnus, said to have been the son of Poseidon. Pausan. l. 10. p. 831.
[179] Ερασθεντα δε Πασιφαης Δια γενεσθαι μεν Ταυρον· νυν δε αετον και κυκνον. Porphyry de Abstin. l. 3. p. 285.