# Capitula XXXIX-LVII 43

Solinus, Capitula XXXIX-LVII, Poem 43. Latin.

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Bithynia in Ponti exordio ad partem solis orientis adversa Thraciæ, opulenta ac dives urbium, a fontibus Sangarii fluminis primos fines habet; ante Bebrycia dicta; deinde Mygdonia; mox a Bithyno rege Bithynia. In ea Prusiadem urbem alluit Hylas flumen, et perspergit Hylas lacus, in quo resedisse credunt delicias Herculis, Hylam puerum, nymphis rapinam: in cujus memoriam usque adhuc solemni cursitatione lacum populus circumit, et Hylam voce clamant. In Bithyno quoque agro Lybyssa locus Nicomediæ proximus, sepulcro Hannibalis famæ datus: qui post Carthaginiense judicium transfuga ad regem Antiochum, deinde post Antiochum apud Thermopylas pugnantem mala pugna, fractumque regem fortunæ vicibus, in hospitium Prusiæ devolutus, ne traderetur Tito Quintio ob hanc causam in Bithyniam misso, captivusque Romam veniret, veneni mali poculo animam expulit, et ab Romanis se vinculis morte defendit.

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