[566]. Hist. Nat. xxxi. 21. “Parthorum reges,” says this writer, “ex Choaspe et Eulæo tantum bibunt; et eæ quamvis in longinqua comitatur eos.” Hence Tibullus has the following verses in his Panegyric of Messala, iv. 1. 142:
“Nec quâ vel Nilus vel regia lympha Choaspes
Profluit.”[Profluit.”]
Herod. i. 188. Æl. Var. Hist. xii. 40. Cf. Strabo. 1. xv. c. 3. t. iii. p. 318.
[567]. Athen. xii. 9. Ἀγαθοκλῆς δ᾽, ἐν τρίτῳ Περὶ Κυζίκου, ἐν Πέρσαις φησὶν εἶναι καὶ χρυσοῦν καλούμενον ὕδωρ. εἶναι δὲ τοῦτο λιβάδας ἑβδομήκοντα, καὶ μηδὲνα πίνειν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ἢ μόνον βασιλέα, καὶ τὸν πρεσβύτατον αὐτοῦ τῶν παίδων. τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων ἐάν τις πίῃ, θάνατος ἡ ζημία.
[568]. Iliad, ι. 702. τ. 161.
[569]. Athen. x. 33.
[570]. Od. ζ. 77, seq.
[571]. Iliad. ι. 487.
[572]. Montaigne, whom few things of this kind had escaped, reads forty, and thinks that men might lawfully get drunk after that age. Essais, ii. 2. t. iii. p. 278.