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CALLIRRHOE

Volume 5 · 56 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, surnamed Enneacrunos, from its nine springs or channels; a fountain not far from Athens, greatly adorned by Pistritus, where there were several wells, but this the only 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.