X. Marstas.. Marsyas is a of Phrygia, flowing by the city river Celaenae, and formerly called the fountain of Midas for this reason. Midas, king of Phrygia, travelling in the remoter parts of the country, and wanting water, stamped upon the ground and there presently appeared a golden ; fountain. But the water proving gold, and both he and his soldiers being ready to perish for thirst, he invoked the compassion of Bacchus, who listening to his prayers supplied him with water. The Phrygians having by this means quenched their thirst, Midas named the river that issued from the spring the Fountain of Midas. Afterwards it was called Marsyas, upon this occasion. Marsyas being overcome and flayed by Apollo, certain Satyrs are said to have sprung from the stream of his blood as also a river bearing the name of Marsyas ; as ; — Alexander Cornelius recites in his Third Book of Phrygian Relations. But Euemeridas the Cnidian tells the story after this manner. It happened that the wine-bag which was made of Marsyas's skin, being corroded by time and carried away negligently by the wind, fell at last from the land into Midas's well ; and driving along with the stream, was taken up by a fisherman. At what time Pisistratus the Lacedaemonian, being commanded by the oracle to build near the place where the relics of the Satyr were found, reflectedupon the accident, and in obedience to the oracle having built a fair city, called it Noricum, which in the Phrygian language signifies a wine-bag. In this river grows an herb called the pipe, which being moved in the wind yields a melodious sound as Dercyl; — lus reports in his First Book of Satyrics. Near to this river also lies the mountain Berecyntus, deriving its name from Berecyntus, the first priest to the or EIVERS AND MOUNTAINS. 491 Mother of the Gods. Upon this mountain is found a stone which is called machaera, very much resembling iron ; which if any one happens to light upon while the solemnities of the Mother of the Gods are performing, he presently runs mad ; — as Agatharchides reports in his Phrygian Relations. XL Strtmon. Strymon is a river of Thrace, that flows along by" the city Edonis. It was formerly called Palaestinus, from ' Palaestinus the son of Neptune. For he being at war with his neighbors, and seized with a violent sickness, sent his son Haliacmon to be general of his army who, ; rashly giving battle to his enemies, was slain in the fight. The tidings of which misfortune being brought to Palaestinus, he privately withdrew himself from his guards, and in desperation of his grief flung himself into the the River Conozus, which from that accident was afterwards called Palaestinus. But as for Strymon, he was the son of Mars ai3fd Helice and hearing that his son Rhesus was ; slain, he flung himself into the river Palaestinus, which was after that called Strymon, by his own name. In this river grows a stone which is called pausilypus, or the grief-easing stone. This stone if any one find who isoppressed with grief, he shall presently be eased of his sorrow — as Jason of Byzantium relates in his Thraciau ; Histories. Near to this river lie the mountains Rhodope and Haemus. These being brother and sister,' and both falling in love with each other, the one was so presumptuous as to call his sister his Juno, the other to call her brother her Jupiter which so offended the Deities, that they changed ; them into mountains bearing their own names. In these two mountains grow certain stones, which are called philadelphi, or the loving brethren. These stones are of a crow-color, and resembling human shape, and if they chance to be named when they are separated one from another, they presently and separately, as they lie, dissolve and waste away — as Thrasyllus the Mendesiau ; testifies in his Third Book of Stones, but more accurately in his Thracian Histories. Xlt. Sagaris. Sagaris is a river of Phrygia, formerly called Xerobates because -in the summer time it was generally dry. But it was called Sagaris for this reason Sagaris, the son of : Myndon and Alexirrhoe, contemning and slighting the mysteries of the Mother of the Gods, frequently affronted and derided her priests the Galli. At which the Goddess heinously offended, struck him with madness to that degree, that in one of his raging fits he flung himself into the river Xerobates, which from that time forward was called Sagaris. In this river grows a stone, which is called autoglyphus, that is, naturally engraved ; for it is found with the Mother of the Gods by nature engraved upon it. This stone, which is rarely to be found, if any of the Galli or gelded priests happen to light upon, he makes no wonder at it, but undauntedly brooks the sight of a preternatural action ; — as Aretazes reports in his Phrygian Relations. Near to this river lies the mountain Ballenaeus, which in the Phrygian language signifies royal ; so called from Ballenaeus, the son* of Ganymede and Medesigiste, who perceiving his father almost wasted with a consumption, instituted the Ballenaean festival, observed among the natives to this day. In this river is to be found a stone called aster, which from the latter end of autumn shines at midnight like fire. It is called in the language of the natives hallen, which being interpreted signifies a king ; — as Hermesianax the Cyprian affirms in his Second Book of his Phrygian Kelations.