I myself weighed the water which comes from the fountain called Pirene in Corinth,
 and found it lighter than any other water in Greece. For I did not believe
 Antiphanes the comic writer, who says that in many respects Attica is superior to
 all other districts, and also that it has the best water of any; for he says:—
 A. Have you remark'd, my friend, That none can with this favour'd land contend In honey, loaves, and figs? B. Aye, figs indeed! A. In myrtles, perfumes, wools, in choicest
 breed Of cattle, and in cheese; and on what ground Can fountains like the Attic springs be found? Eubulus, the writer of comedies, somewhere or other says that Chæremon
 the tragedian called water the body of the river:— But when we pass'd the folds, and cross'd the water, The river's lucid body, all our troops In the pure crystal bathed their weary limbs, 
 There is a fountain in Tenos the water of which cannot be
 mixed with wine. And Herodotus, in his fourth book, says that the Hypanis, at a
 distance of five days' journey from its head, is thin and sweet to the taste; but
 that four days' journey further on it becomes bitter, because some bitter spring
 falls into it. And Theopompus says that near the river Erigone all the water is
 sour; and that those who drink of it become intoxicated, just like men who have
 drunk wine.