Catarrhactes
(
Καταρράκτης).
1.
A river of Pamphylia, which descends from the mountains of Taurus in a great, broken
waterfall (whence its name).
2.
The term is also applied, first by Strabo, to the cataracts of the Nile, which are
distinguished as Catarrhactes Maior and Catarrhactes Minor. See
Nilus.