CHAP. 7.—PLACES WHERE FISH EAT FROM THE HAND.
At many of the country-seats belonging to the Emperor the
fish eat [Note] from the hand: but the stories of this nature, told
with such admiration by the ancients, bear reference to lakes
formed by Nature, and not to fish-preserves; that at Elorus, a
fortified place in Sicily, for instance, not far from Syracuse.
In the fountain, too, of Jupiter, at Labranda, [Note] there are eels
which eat from the hand, and wear ear-rings, [Note] it is said. The
same, too, at Chios, near the Old Men's Temple [Note] there; and
at the Fountain of Chabura in Mesopotamia, already mentioned. [Note]
