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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Arcadia, chapter 38 (search)
eisoa. There flow through the land of Theisoa the following tributaries of the Alpheius, the Mylaon, Nus, Achelous, Celadus, and Naliphus. There are two other rivers of the same name as the Achelous in Arcadia, and more famous than it. One, falling into the sea by the Echinadian islands, flows through Acarnania and Aetolia, and is said by Homer in the IliadSee Hom. Il. 21.194. to be the prince of all rivers. Another Achelous, flowing from Mount Sipylus, along with the mountain also, he takes occasion to mention in connection with his account of Niobe.Hom. Il. 24.615. The third river called the Achelous is the one by Mount Lycaeus. On the right of Lycosura are the mountains called Nomian, and on them is a sanctuary of Nomian Pan; the place they name Melpeia, saying that here Pan discovered the music of the pipes. It is a very obvious conjecture that the name of the Nomian Mountains is derived from the pasturings （nomai） of Pan, but the Arcadians themselves derive the name from a nym