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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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MINOR LATIN POETSprincipiis aliis credas consurgere ventosnon dubium rupes aliquas penitusque cavernasproruere ingenti sonitu. casuqiie propinquas 3difFugere impellique animas : hinc crescere ventos :aut lunore etiam nebulas effundere largo,ut campis agrisque solent quos alluit amnis.vallibus exoriens caligat nubiliis aerflumina parva ferunt auras, vis proxinia vento est : 3eminus adspirat fortes et verberat umor.atque haec in vacuo si tanta potentia rorum est,hoc plura efficiant infra clusique necesse est.his agitur causis extra penitusque : coactuexagitant ventos : pugnant in faucibus : arte 2pugnantis suffocat iter, velut unda profundoterque quaterque exhausta graves ubi perbibit Euros,ingeminant fluctus et primos ultimus urgethaud secus, adstrictus certamine, tangitur ictuspiritus involvensque suo sibi pondere virescdensa per ardentes exercet corpora venas,et, quacumque iter est, properat transitque morantem,donee confluvio veluti siponibus actusexsilit atque furens tota vomit igneus Aetna.^1° provehere CSH : proruere AM. 1517.312 effundere CSZ : se effundere Baehren-s.31*^ fortis CSZ : fontis V. ^^^ rerum CZ : rorum Jacob.21^ coactus C : coactu Ellis.32G ardentes CSZ : artantes Jacob, vires CZ : venas Aid.1517 : fauces Svdhaus : gyros f^llis." 307-329. The reasoning takes the form of an answer to apossible objector who suggests that there may be causes forwinds in Aetna other than those already set forth (283-306).The argument is that you must allow that rock-falls undergroundgenerate air-currents; <strong>and</strong>, just as river vapours invalley's emit air (more perceptiblj- in hot climates, Munro saj^shere ; c/. also Lucret. VL 476 sqq.), so the effect of moisture (c/.388

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