Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

202 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

hills, and in summer as dry channels, unfed by any
spring. Such inconstant streams could never have
been supplied with fish, as Ave are told the Selinus
was, and therefore we must look to the actual
streams for these noted rivers. Now we find that
the Caystrus is stocked with an abundance of fish,1
and possibly the two canals referred to. Nothing
was more common with the ancients than to e'ive a
variety of names to the same object, and thus it is
possible that the Cenchrius might have been called
Selinus by poets, from its banks being covered with
parsley," and thus that the two streamlets running
into the Caystrus, one from the City Port, the
other from the " Marsh on the other side of the
city," are the rivers Selinus here alluded to.

From the instances already quoted, we have seen
the appropriateness of regarding rivers as sacred
to Diana. This fact is further shown by Horace,
(Ode I. 25, v. 5,) and Catullus (xxxiv. v. 12). At
the Cladeus and Alpheus also, and at Ortygia in
Syracuse, we are informed, Diana was called Pota-
mia, or the River Goddess.3 Diogenes, in Athenseus,
makes the Lydian and Bactrian virgins celebrate
her feasts at the river-side under Mount Tmolus.4

1 W. J. Hamilton, ltesearches, i. 540.

3 From the similarity of the word, one might also derive it from
Selene, the Moon ; but as all the authorities spell it Selinus, we
must take the other signification of it to be the correct one.

3 And so called by Pindar, Pyth. Od.

4 Athen. p. C36.