Of the Names of Rivers and Mountains, and of Such Things as are to be Found Therein

Lines

1 – 1 1 – 2 2 – 3 3 – 3 3 – 4 4 – 5 5 – 5 5 – 6 6 – 7 7 – 7 7 – 8 8 – 9 9 – 10 10 – 10 10 – 11 11 – 13 13 – 14 14 – 14 14 – 16 16 – 16 16 – 17 17 – 18 18 – 18 18 – 18 18 – 19 19 – 21 21 – 21 21 – 22 22 – 23 23 – 23 23 – 24 24 – 25 25 – 25

İngilizce

25 In the same river also grows an herb, not unlike to bugloss. Which is an excellent remedy against the king’s evil, being administered to the patient in warm water;— as Clitophon the Rhodian reports in his First Book of Indian Relations.

25 Near to this mountain lies the mountain Lilaeus, so called from Lilaeus a shepherd; who, being very superstitious and a worshipper of the Moon alone, always performed her mysteries in the dead time of the night. Which the rest of the Gods taking for a great dishonor, sent two monstrous lions that tore him in pieces. Upon which the Moon turned her adorer into a mountain of the same name.

25 In this mountain a stone is found which is called clitoris, of a very black color, which the natives wear for ornament’s sake in their ears;—as Aristotle witnesses in his Fourth Book of Rivers.