Hippocampus (mythology) landwards through vast underground caverns and aquifers, rising replenished and freshened in springs. Thus it was natural for a temple at Helike in the coastal plain of Achaea to be dedicated to "Poseidon Helikonios", (the Poseidon of Helicon), the sacred spring of Boeotian Helikon. When an earthquake suddenly submerged the city, the temple's bronze Poseidon accompanied by hippocampi continued to snag fishermens' nets. Likewise, the hippocampus was considered an appropriate decoration for mosaics in Roman thermae or public baths, as at Aquae Sulis modern day Bath in Britannia ("illustration, below"). Poseidon's horses, which were included in the elaborate sculptural program
Aquae Albae in Byzacena Aquae Albae in Byzacena Aquae Albae in Byzacena (also typographed Aquæ Albæ in Byzacena) was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Its present location is Ain-Beida, in modern Tunisia (which has namesakes, notably in Algeria and Morocco). Aquae Albae was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become one of the many suffragans of its capital Hadrumetum's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade. The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :