(
Greek characters)[1]: it then increases and becomes full at midnight, after which it again visibly decreases. In Illyricum
there is a cold spring, over which if garments are spread
they take fire. The pool of Jupiter Amnion, which is cold
during the day, is warm during the night[2]. In the country
of the Troglodytæ[3] what they call the Fountain of the Sun
about noon is fresh and very cold; it then gradually (rrows
warm, and, at midnight, becomes hot and saline[4].
In the middle of the day, dimng summer, the source of the Po, as if reposing itself, is always dry[5] In the island of Tenedos there is a spring, which, after the summer solstice, is full of water, from the third hour of the night to the sixth[6]. The fountain Inopus, in the island of Delos decreases and mcreases in the same manner as the Nile' and also at the same periods[7]. There is a small island in the sea, opposite to the river Timavus, containing warm
- ↑ "Quasi alternis requiescens, ac meridians: diem diffindens, ut Yarro loqmtur, msititia quiete." Hardouin in Lemaire, i. 443. He says that there is a smiilar kind of fountain in Provence, called Collis Martiensis
- ↑ There has been considerable difference of opinion among the commentators both as to the reading of the text and its interpretation, for which I shall refer to the notes of Poinsinet, i. 307, of Hardouin and Alexandre, Lemaire, i. 413, and of Richelet, Ajasson ii 402
- ↑ We have an account of the Troglodytæ in a subsequent part of the
work v. 5. The name is generally applied by the ancients to a tribe of
people inhabiting a portion of Æthiopia, and is derived from the circumstance of their dwellings being composed of caverns; a (
Greek characters) and (Greek characters). Alexandre remarks, that the name was occasionally applied to other tribes whose habitations were of the same kind; Lemaire, i. 443. They are referred to by Q. Curtius as a tribe of the Æthopians, situated to the south
of Egypt and extending to the Red Sea, iv. 7.
- ↑ Q. Curius gives nearly the same account of this fountain
- ↑ The Po derives its water from the torrents of the Alps, and is therefore much affected by the melting of the snow or the great falls of rain which occur at different seasons of the year; but the daily diminution of the water, as stated by our author, is without foundation.
- ↑ "Fontem ibi mtermittentem frustra quæsivit el. Le Chevalier, Voyage de la Troade, t. i. p. 219." Lemaire, i. 444.
- ↑ Strabo in allusion to this circumstance, remarks, that some persons make it still more wonderful supposing that this spring is connected with the Nile. We learn from Tournefort, that there is a well of this name in Delos, which he found to contain considerably more water in January and February than in October, and which is supposed to be connected with the me or the Jordan : this, of course, he regards as an idle tale. Lemaire.
