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Pausanias

The fish that cried like birds

Among the fish in the Aroanius is one called the dappled fish. These dappled fish, it is said, utter a cry like that of the thrush. I have seen fish that have been caught, but I never heard their cry, though I waited by the river even until sunset, at which time the fish were said to cry most.

Perseus Encyclopedia

Spring of the Ladon

River of Arcadia, tributary of Alpheus, its source, its lower course, no fairer river than Ladon, its water the most beautiful in Greece, daughter of Ladon (Daphne) loved by Apollo, Evander a grandson of Ladon, the Cerynitian hind shot by Herakles at the, father of Metope.

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