Note 26 — Chapter XI

Here Lethe’s streams, from secret springs below,

Rise to the light; here heavily, and slow,

The silent, dull, forgetful waters flow.

(Rowe’s Lucan, book ix. p. 209.)

Lucan places his Lethe and Hesperian Gardens in the neighbourhood of the Lake Tritonis, in the Lesser Syrtis; but the western part of the Cyrenaica is the most approved position for both. See also Solinus on this point.