Footnote 242:
Teuthras' fort, or Teuthrania, is described by Strabo (xii. p. 571) as
lying between the Hellespont and Mount Sipylos, in Magnesia.
Footnote 243:
Kypros, as dedicated to the worship of Aphrodite, and famous for its
wine, and oil, and corn.
Footnote 244:
The question, what caused the mysterious exceptional inundations of
the Nile, occupied, as we see from Herodotos (ii. c. 19-27), the minds
of the Greeks. Of the four theories which the historian discusses,
Æschylos adopts that which referred it to the melting of the snows on
the mountains of central Africa.
Footnote 245:
Typhon, the mythical embodiment of the power of evil, was fabled to
have wandered over Egypt, seeking the body of Osiris. Isis, to baffle
him, placed coffins in all parts of Egypt, all empty but the one which
contained the body.
Footnote 246:
The fame of the Nile for the purity of its water, after the earthy
matter held in solution had been deposited, seems to have been as
great in the earliest periods of its history as it is now.
Footnote 247:
Io was represented as a woman with a heifer's head, and was probably a
symbolic representation of the moon, with her crescent horns.
Sometimes the transformation is described (as in v. 294) in words
which imply a more thorough change.
Footnote 248: