Plut. Mor., Rivers and Mountains 25 — Of the Names of Rivers and Mountains, and of Such Things as Are to Be Found Therein

Plut. Mor., Rivers and Mountains 25 — Of the Names of Rivers and Mountains, and of Such Things as Are to Be Found Therein, Plutarch; served verbatim

Indus. Indus is a river in India, flowing with a rapid violence into the country of the fish-devourers. It was first called Mausolus, from Mausolus the son of the Sun, but changed its name for this reason. At the time when the mysteries of Bacchus were solemnized and the people were earnest at their devotion, Indus, one of the chief of the young nobility, by force deflowered Damasalcidas, the daughter of Oxyalcus the king of the country, as she was carrying the sacred basket for which ; being sought for by the tjTant, in order to bring him to condign punishment, for fear he threw himself into the river Mausolus, which from that accident was afterwards called Indus. In this river grows a certain stone called . . . which if a virgin carry about her, she need never be afraid of being deflowered. In the same river also grows an herb, not unlike to bugloss. Which is an excellent remedy against the king'spatient in warm water evil, being administered to the ; — as Clitophon the Rhodian reports in his First Book of Indian Relations. 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. 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.

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Of the Names of Rivers and Mountains, and of Such Things as Are to Be Found Therein, Plutarch — translated by R. White (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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