a tree, which he was trying to cleave
asunder, he became a prey to wild beasts.]

[Footnote 14: _Lycus._--Ver. 273. There were several rivers of
this name. The one here referred to was also called by the name of
Marsyas, and flowed past the city of Laodicea, in Lydia.]

[Footnote 15: _Erasinus._--Ver. 276. This was a river of Arcadia,
which running out of the Stymphalian marsh, under the name of
Stymphalus, disappeared in the earth, and rose again in the Argive
territory, under the name of Erasinus.]

[Footnote 16: _Amenanus._--Ver. 279. This was a little river of
Sicily, rising in Mount AEtna, and falling into the sea near the
city of Catania.]

[Footnote 17: _Anigros._--Ver. 282. The Anigros, flowing from the
mountain of Lapitha, in Arcadia, had waters of a fetid smell, in
which no fish could exist. Pausanias thinks that this smell
proceeded from the soil, and not the water. He adds, that some
said that Chiron, others that Polenor, when wounded by the arrow
of Hercules, washed the wound in the water of this river, which
became impure from its contact with the venom of the Hydra.]

[Footnote 18: _Hypanis._--Ver. 285. Now the Bog. It falls into the
Black Sea.]

[Footnote 19: _Antissa._--Ver. 287. This island, in the AEgean Sea,
was said to have been formerly united to Lesbos.]

[Footnote 20: _Pharos._--Ver. 287. According to Herodotus, this
island was once a whole day's sail from the main land of Egypt.
In later times, having been increased by the mud discharged by the
Nile, it was united to the shore by a bridge.]

[Footnote 21: _Tyre._--Ver. 288. Tyre once stood on an island,
separated from the shore by a strait, seven hundred paces in
width. Alexander the Great, when besieging it, united it to the
main land by a causeway. This, however, does not aid the argument
of Pythagoras, who intends to recount the changes wrought by
nature, and not by the hand of man. Besides, it is not easy to see
how Pythagoras could refer to a fact which took place several
hundred years after his death.]

[Footnote 22: _Leucas._--Ver. 289. The island of Leucas was
formerly a peninsula, on the coast of Acarnania.]

[Footnote 23: _Zancle._--Ver. 290. Under this name he means the
whole of the isle of Sicily, which was supposed to have once
joined the shores of Italy.]

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