[2981] His credulity, we have seen already, was pretty extensive.
[2982] In Thessaly.
[2983] At the town called “Aquæ Mattiacæ,” the modern Wiesbaden.
[2984] In B. ii. c. 106.
[2985] Sotion, professing to quote from Ctesias, says that it rejected everything placed on its waters, and hurled it back upon dry land.
[2986] Whence, as it was said, its name, ἄορνος, “Without birds.” Strabo ridicules this story.
[2987] M. Douville says that in the interior of Africa there is a lake called Kalonga Kouffoua, or the Dead Lake, the surface of which is covered with bitumen and naphtha, which contains no fish, has oleaginous waters, and presents all the phænomena of the Dead Sea.
[2988] In Lycia.
[2989] Hardouin is of opinion that a river also was so called. See B. v. c. 43. Of the divinity of this name, nothing further is known.
[2990] A story evidently connected with a kind of ordeal.