This is an accepted version of this page Lake Tritonis (Greek: Τριτωνίδα λίμνην) was a large body of fresh water in North Africa that was described in many ancient texts.
The lake is mentioned as being in Libya, a land the ancient Greeks believed encircled their world, "washed on all sides by the sea," Herodotus said,[1] "except where it is attached to Asia."
Before the epic Argonautika of Apollonius, Herodotus knew this tradition of Jason, in which winds "carried him out of his course to the coast of Libya; where, before he discovered the land, he got among the shallows of Lake Tritonis.
As he was turning it in his mind how he should find his way out, Triton (they say) appeared to him, and offered to show him the channel, and secure him a safe retreat, if he would give him the tripod.
"When a descendant," he said, "of one of the Argo's crew should seize and carry off the brazen tripod, then by inevitable fate would a hundred Grecian cities be built around Lake Tritonis."
[8]As Apollonius of Rhodes narrates it, when the Argo was driven ashore on the Lesser Syrtes by a fierce storm while returning from Colchis, the Argonauts found themselves in "an area surrounded by sands".