PADUS, now the Po, anciently called Eridanus, especially by the Greeks; a river famous for the fable of Phaeton (Ovid). It rises in Mount Vesulus, in the Alpes Gothice, 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 months, into the Adriatic (Mela). The lake through which it discharges itself into the sea, is called by the natives the Seven Seas.