its soil, and situation. Its medicinal [606]waters are well
known; which were called Aquae Cumanae. The term Cumana is not formed merely
by a Latine inflection; but consists of the terms Cumain, and signifies a
hot fountain; or a fountain of Chum, or Cham, the Sun. The country about it
was called Phlegra; and its waters are mentioned by Lucretius.

[607]Qualis apud Cumas locus est, montemque Vesevum,
Oppleti calidis ubi fumant fontibus auctus.

Here was a cavern, which of old was a place of prophecy. It was the seat of
the Sibylla Cumana, who was supposed to have come from [608]Babylonia. As
Cuma was properly Cuman; so Baiae was Baian; and Alba near mount
Albanus[609], Alban: for the Romans often dropped the n final. Pisa, so
celebrated in Elis, was originally Pisan, of the same purport as the Aquae
Pisanae above. It was so called from a sacred fountain, to which only the
name can be primarily applicable: and we are assured by Strabo [610][Greek:
Ten krenen Pisan eiresthai], that the fountain had certainly the name of
Pisan. I have mentioned that Mount Pyrene was so called from being a
fountain of fire: such mountains often have hot streams in their vicinity,
which are generally of great utility. Such we find to have been in
Aquitania at the foot of this mountain, which were called Thermae Onesae; and
are mentioned by Strabo, as [611][Greek: Therma kallista potimotatou
hudatos]. What in one part of the world was termed Cumana, was in another
rendered Comana. There was a grand city of this name in Cappadocia, where
stood one of the noblest Puratheia in Asia. The Deity worshipped was
represented as a feminine, and styled Anait, and Anais; which latter is the
same as Hanes. She was well known also in Persis, Mesopotamia, and at
Egbatana in Media. Both An-ait, and An-ais, signifies a fountain of fire.
Generally near her temples, there was an eruption of that element;
particularly at Egbatana, and Arbela. Of the latter Strabo gives an
account, and of the fiery matter which was near it. [612][Greek: Peri
Arbela de esti kai Demetrias polis; eith' he tou naphtha pege, kai ta pura]
(or [Greek: pureia]) [Greek: kai to tes Anaias hieron.]

I should take the town of Egnatia in Italy to have been of the same purport
as Hanes above mentioned: for Hanes was sometimes expressed with a
guttural, Hagnes; from whence came the ignis of the Romans. In Arcadia near
mount Lyceus was a sacred fountain; into which one of the nymphs, which