And from it towards the land a hollow glen slopes gradually away, where there is a cave of Hades overarched by wood and rocks.

From here an icy breath, unceasingly issuing from the chill recess, ever forms a glistening rime which melts again beneath the midday sun.

And never does silence hold that grim headland, but there is a continual murmur from the sounding sea and the leaves that quiver in the winds from the cave.

And here is the outfall of the river Acheron which bursts its way through the headland and falls into the Eastern sea, and a hollow ravine brings it down from above.

In after times the Nisaean Megarians named it Soonautes [1202] when they were about to settle in the land of the Mariandyni.