CHAP. 16.—WATERS WHICH THROW UP STONES. WATERS WHICH
CAUSE LAUGHTER AND WEEPING. WATERS WHICH ARE SAID
TO BF CURATIVE OF LOVE.
Theophrastus makes mention of the fountain of Marsyas,
near the city of Cellenæ, in Phrygia, which throws up masses
of stone. Not far from it are two other springs, called Clæon[1]
and Gelon by the Greeks, from the effects which they respectively produce. At Cyzicus is a fountain known as that
of Cupido, the waters of which, Mucianus believes,[2] cure those
who drink thereof of love.
1. From klai/ein, "to weep," and gela=|n, "to laugh."
2. His credulity, we have seen already, was pretty extensive.