Note 566 — Chapter III · FOOD OF HOMERIC TIMES—MEAT, FISH, ETC.
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Hist. Nat. xxxi. 21. “Parthorum reges,” says this writer, “ex Choaspe et Eulæo tantum bibunt; et eæ quamvis in longinqua comitatur eos.” Hence Tibullus has the following verses in his Panegyric of Messala, iv. 1. 142:
“Nec quâ vel Nilus vel regia lympha Choaspes
Profluit.”Profluit.”
Herod. i. 188. Æl. Var. Hist. xii. 40. Cf. Strabo. 1. xv. c. 3. t. iii. p. 318.