The Three Rivers of Thessaly

On Mount Talgatus it is sand there is a plant called karissia which women in the beginning of spring fasten round their necks and are loved more passionately by their husbands. The Sibreus causes horses that drink of it to be timorous while the Krathes makes men yellow haired when they bathe in it. In Eubia there are said to be two rivers the sheep that drink from one of them become white it is called Kerbas  and the other is the Nilius which makes them black 171 near the river Lecormus it is sand that a plant grows which is like a lance and is most beneficial in the case of