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Pindar, Pythian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Pythian 4
For Arcesilas of Cyrene
Chariot Race
462 B. C. (search)
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 4 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 15, line 335 (search)
So lakes and rivers have
now this, now that effect.
“Ortygia once
moved like a ship that drifts among the waves.
Now it is fixed. The Argo was in dread
of the Symplegades, which moved apart
with waves in-rushing. Now immovable
they stand, resisting the attack of winds.
“Aetna, which burns with sulphur furnaces,
will not be always concentrated fire,
nor was it always fiery. If the earth
is like an animal and is alive
and breathes out flame at many openings,
then it can change these many passages
used for its breathing and, when it is moved,
may close these caverns as it opens up
some others. Or if rushing winds are penned
in deepest caverns, and they drive great stones
against the rock, and substances which have
the properties of flame and fire are made
by those concussions; when the winds are calmed
the caverns will, of course, be cool again.
“Or if some black bitumen catches fire
or yellow sulphur burns with little smoke,
then surely, when the ground no longer gives
such food and oil<