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CALLIRHOE

Volume 6 · 56 words · 1842 Edition

in Ancient Geography, surnamed Enecarumos from its nine springs or channels, a fountain not far from Athens, greatly adorned by Peisistratus, 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.