7. The greater part of the city of the Argives is situated in a plain. It has a citadel called Larisa, a hill moderately fortified, and upon it a temple of Jupiter. Near it flows the Inachus, a torrent river; its source is in Lyrceium [the Arcadian mountain near Cynuria]. We have said before that the fabulous stories about its sources are the inventions of poets; it is a fiction also that Argos is without water—
“but the gods made Argos a land without water.”
Now the ground consists of hollows, it is intersected by rivers, and is full of marshes and lakes; the city also has a copious supply of water from many wells, which rises near the surface.
They attribute the mistake to this verse,
“and I shall return disgraced to Argos (πολυδίψιον) the very thirsty.”[184]
This word is used for πολυπόθητον, or
“much longed after,”
or without the δ for πολυίψιον, equivalent to the expression πολύφθορον in Sophocles,
“this house of the Pelopidæ abounding in slaughter,”[185]
[for προϊάψαι and ἰάψαι and ἴψασθαι, denote some injury or destruction;