PADUS, anciently called Eridanus, especially by the Greeks; a river famous for the fable of Phaeton (Ovid). It rises in Mount Vesulus, in the Alpes Cothiae, from three springs, dividing the Cisalpine Gaul into the Transpadana and Cispadana, (Strabo); and swelled by other rivers falling into it on each side from the Alps and Apennines, it discharges itself with a course from west to east, at seven mouths, into the Adriatic (Mela). The lake through which it discharges itself into the sea, is called by the natives the Seven Seas. Now the Po.