[2961] The springs on the present Monte Posilippo.
[2962] This work is lost. Chifflet suggests that “Varro” should be read. See, however, B. vii. c. 2, B. xxix. c. 16 and c. 28 of this Book. It was a common-place book, probably, of curious facts.
[2963] See B. ii. c. 106, where a growing rock in the marsh of Reate is mentioned.
[2964] In Thessaly. A mere fable, no doubt.
[2965] Ovid, Met. xv. 315, et seq., tells very nearly the same fabulous story about the rivers Crathis and Sybaris.
[2966] This marvellous story appears to have been derived from the works of Aristotle.
[2967] Near the town of Lebadea, now Livadhia.
[2968] One called “Mnemosyne” or Memory, and the other “Lethe,” or Forgetfulness.
[2969] From the Greek νοῦς “spirit,” “mind,” or “intelligence.” Ajasson thinks it possible that its water may have assuaged vertigo, or accelerated the circulation of the blood, and that thence its reputation.
[2970] A fable invented by the priests, Ajasson thinks.