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1 In B. ii. c. 106.
2 Sotion, professing to quote from Ctesias, says that it rejected everything placed on its waters, and hurled it back upon dry land.
3 Whence, as it was said, its name, ἄορνος, "Without birds." Strabo ridicules this story.
4 M. Douville says that in the interior of Africa there is a lake called Kalouga Kouffona, 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.
5 In Lycia.
6 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.
7 A story evidently connected with a kind of ordeal.
8 See B. iv. c. 34. Intermittent springs are not uncommon. See B. ii. c. 106.
9 See B. xix. c. 11.
10 According to Elias of Thisbe this river was the Goza; but Holstenius says that it was the Eleutherus. or one of its tributaries. Josephus says that it flowed on the Sabbath day, and was dry the other six.
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