Note 3071 — BOOK XXXI. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE AQUATIC PRODUCTIONS.
John Bostock translation
His credulity is influenced by the popular story that the river Alpheus in Peloponnesus, in its love for the Fountain Nymph Arethusa, penetrated beneath the bed of the sea, and reappeared in Sicily. See B. iii. c. 14.