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CALLIRRHOE

Volume 3 · 55 words · 1778 Edition

(anc. geog.), surnamed Enneacranus, from its nine springs or channels; a fountain not far from Athens, greatly adorned by Pisistratus, where there were several wells, but this only the running spring. Callirhoe was also the name of a very fine spring of hot water beyond Jordan near the Dead Sea, into which it empties itself.