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1822, Hans Ancher Kofod, Converations-lexicon: eller encyclopædik haandbog over de i elskabelig underholdning og ved læsning forekommende gjentande, navne og begreber, med henyn til folke- og mennekehitorie, politik, diplomatik, mythologie, archæologie, jordbekrivele, naturkundkab, fabrik-og manufacturvæen, handel, de kjønne kunter og videnkaber, indbefattende tillige de ældre og nyere mærkværdige tidsbegivenheder, overat efter den tydke originals tredie oplag, med adskillige forandringer og tillæg, page 672:
Han ophørte ei at forfølge hende, og, da hun ingen Redning mere saae for sig, fordi Ladons Vande spærrede hende Veien, anraabte hun Søstrene om Hielp, som forvandlede hende til et Rør.
He did not cease pursuing her, and, when she no longer saw any salvation for herself, as the waters of La don blocked her way, she invoked the sisters for help, who turned her into a reed.
1861, Nordisk universitets-tidskrift, page 72:
... saavelsom de tildeels saare skjönne Bredder af Floderne Erymanthos og Ladon, der begge falde i Alpheus, ...
... as well as the in part quite beautiful shores of the rivers of Erymanthos and Ladon, both of which fall in Alpheus, ...
1892, Ingvald Undset, Fra Akershus til Akropolis: erindringer fra arkaeologiske studiereiser:
... vi kom nu til Rufia, de gamles Ladon, en flod ligesaa stor som selve Alfeios, ...
... we presently came to Rufie, the Ladon of the elders, a river just as big as Alfeios itself, ...
