[3071] His credulity is influenced by the popular story that the river Alpheus in Peloponnesus, in its love for the Fountain Nymph Arethusa, penetrated beneath the bed of the sea, and reappeared in Sicily. See B. iii. c. 14.
[3072] See c. 20.
[3073] The modern Dnieper.
[3074] The Boug.
[3075] See B. xviii. c. 3, and the Introduction to Vol. III.
[3076] In jets, he means.
[3077] “Si quinariæ erunt.”
[3078] “Denaria.”
[3079] “Quinaria.”
[3080] The name given to these reservoirs was “castellum” or “dividiculum:” in French the name is “regard.” Vitruvius describes them, B. vii. c. 7.