Sotion compiled Scattered paradoxes on rivers, springs, and lakes. The opening entries are a Theban spring at Potniae that drives horses mad (Isigonus), a Clazomenian spring that dyes wool, an Indian spring that throws swimmers ashore as from a machine (Ctesias), a Cretan channel you cross dry in rain, a Persian oil-spring that appeared to Alexander, a Cilician pool that revives drowned birds and beasts. Later chapters run Arcadian, Italian, and Lydian water-miracles, including the Clitor spring that makes wine hateful, with its epigram of Melampus and the Proetids.
Westermann, Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci (1839), pp. 183–191. Canon: SOTION 〈Paradox.〉 (A.D. 1).
The page is that paradoxographical hydrology, not Sotion of Alexandria the Peripatetic biographer.
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