XXI. Caicus.. Caicus a river of Mysia, formerly called Astraeus, is from Astraeus the son of Neptune. For he, in the height of Minerva's nocturnal solemnities having deflowered his sister by a mistake, took a ring at the same time from her finger by which when he understood the nekt day the ; error which he had committed, for grief he threw himself headlong into the river Adurus, which from thence was called Astraeus. Afterwards it came to be called Caicus upon this occasion. Caicus, the son of Hermes and Ocyrrhoe the Nymph, having slain Timander one of the noblemen of the country, and fearing the revenge of his relations, flung himself into the river Astraeus, which from that accident was called Caicus. In this river grows a sort of poppy, which instead of fruit bears stones. Of these there are some which are black and shaped like harps, which the Mysians throw upon their ploughed lands and if the stones lie still in ; the place where they are thrown, it is a sign of a barren year but if they fly away like so many locusts, they prog; nosticate a plentiful harvest. In the same river also grows an herb which is called elipharmacus, which the physicians apply .to such as are troubled with immoderate fluxes of blood, as having a peculiar virtue to stop the orifices of the veins accord- ; — ing to the relation of Timagoras in his First Book of Rivers. Adjoining to the banks of this river lies the mountain 504 • OF THE NAMES Teuthras, so called from Teuthras king of the Mysians ; who in pursuance of his sport, as he was a hunting, ascending the hill Thrasyllus and seeing a monstrous wild boar, followed him close with the rest of his train. On the other side, the boar, to prevent the hunters, like a suppliant fled to the temple of Orthosian Diana, into which when the hunters were about to force their entrance', the boar in articulate words cried out. Spare, O king, the nursling of the Goddess. However, Teuthras, exalted with his good success, killed the poor boar. At which Diana was so highly offended, that she restored the boar to life, but struck the offender with scurf and madness. Which afflictionthe king not enduring betook himself to the tops of the mountains. But his mother Leucippe, understanding what had befallen her son, ran to the forest, taking along with her the soothsayer Polyidus, the son of Coeranus by whom being informed of all the several circum; stances of the matter, by many sacrifices she at last atoned the anger of the Goddess, and having quite recovered and cured her son, erected an altar to Orthosian Diana, and caused a golden boar to be made with a man's face. Which to this day, if pursued by the hunters, enters the temple, and speaks with the voice of a man the word "spare." Thus Teuthras, being restored to his former health, called the mountain by his own name Teuthras. In this mountain grows a stone called antipathes (or the which is of excellent virtue to cure scabs and resistor), leprosies, being powdered and mixed with wine ; as — Ctesias the Cnidian tells us in his Second Book of Mountains. XXn. ACHELOUS. AcHELOus is a river of Aetolia, formerly called Thestius. This Thestius was the son of Mars and Pisidice, who upon some domestic discontent travelled as far as Sicyon, where after he had resided for some time, he returned to his native home. But finding there his son Calydon and his mother both upon the bed together, believing him to be an adulterer, he slew his own child by a mistake. But when he beheld the unfortunate and unexpected fact he had committed, he threw himself into the river Axenos, which from thence was afterwards called Thestius. And after that, it was called Achelous upon this occasion. Achelous, the son of Oceanus and the Nymph Nais, having deflowered his daughter Cletoria by mistake, flung himself for grief into the river Thestius, which then by his own name was called Achelous. In this river grows an herb, which they call zaclon, very much resembling wool this if you bruise and cast into ; wine, it becomes water, and preserves the smell but not the virtues of the wine. In the same river alsofound a certain stone of a is mixed black and lead color, called linurgus from the effect; for if you throw it upon a linen cloth, by a certain affectionate union it assumes the form of the linen, and turns white ; — as Antisthenes relates in the Third Book of his Meleagris, though Diodes the Rhodian more accurately tells us the same thing in his Aetolics. Near to this riv^r lies the mountain Calydon, so called from Calydon, the son of Mars and Astynome for that ; he, by an accident having seen Diana bathing herself, was transformed into a rock and the mountain which before ; was named Gyrus was afterwards by the providence of the Gods called Calydon. Upon this mountain grows an herb called myops. This if any one steep in water and wash his face with it, he shall lose his sight, but upon his atoning Diana, he shall recover it again ; — as Dercyllus writes in his Third Book of Aetolics.