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BYBLOS (Ancient city) PHOENICE
Adonis (Adonis: Nahr el Ibrahim), a small river of Syria, which rising
in Mount Libanus enters the Mediterranean a few miles to the S. of Byblus. Maundrell
records the fact which he himself witnessed, that after a sudden fall of rain,
the river descending in floods is tinged of a deep red by the soil of the hills
in which it takes its rise, and imparts this colour to the sea for a considerable
distance. Hence some have sought to explain the legend of the beautiful Adonis,
who was killed by a wild boar on Mount Libanus (Strab. p. 755; Lucian, de Dea
Syr. 6; Plin. v. 20.; Nonn. Dionys. iii. 80, xx. 144.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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