<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng2" n="2"><div type="textpart" subtype="chapter" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng2:2" n="19"><p>But Aristobulus of Cassandra says that there is a fountain in Miletus called the
                  Achillean, the stream of which is very sweet, while the sediment is brackish: this
                  is the water in which the Milesians say that their hero bathed when he had slain
                  Trambelus the king of the Leleges. And they say, too, that the water in Cappadocia
                  never becomes putrid, but there is a great deal in that district, of an admirable
                  quality, though it has no outlet unless it flows underground. And Ptolemy the
                  king, in the Seventh Book of his Commentaries, says that as you go to Corinth
                  through the district called Contoporia, when you have got to the top of the
                  mountain there is a fountain whose waters are colder than snow, so that many
                  people are afraid to drink of it lest they should be frozen; but he says that he
                  drank of it himself. And Phylarchus states that at Cleitor there is a spring which
                  gives those who drink of it a distaste for the smell of wine. And Clearchus tells
                  us that water is called white, like milk; and that wine is called red, like
                  nectar; and that honey and oil are called yellow, and that the juice which is
                  extracted from the myrtle-berry is black. Eubulus says that "water makes those who
                  drink nothing else very ingenious, <quote rend="blockquote"><l>But wine obscures and clouds the mind;"</l></quote> and Philetas borrows not only the thought, but the lines.</p></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>