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fowls and these fruits that we have brought thee."
of the army.html">army the Romans sent out to meet him; "I know not," said he,
"these may be; but the disposition of this army that I see has nothing.html">nothing of
Greeks of that which Flaminius brought into their country.html">country.html">country.html">country; and Philip,
formed in his kingdom by Publius Sulpicius Galba, spake to the same
things upon trust from vulgar opinion, and that we are to judge by the
World, discovered in these latter days, and in that part of it where
France. This discovery of so vast a country seems to be of very great
another, so many wiser men than we having been deceived in this. I am
curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind.
Plato brings in Solon, --[In Timaeus.]-- telling a story that he had
Deluge, there was a great island.html">island called Atlantis, situate directly at the
both Africa and Asia put together; and that the kings of that country,
the continent that they had a country of Africa as far as Egypt, and
to subjugate all the nations that border upon the Mediterranean Sea, as
and Italy, so far as to penetrate into Greece, where the Athenians
their island, were swallowed by the Flood.
It is very likely that this extreme irruption and inundation of water
as 'tis said that the sea then divided Sicily from Italy--
"Haec loca, vi quondam et vasta convulsa ruina,
Una foret"
["These lands, they say, formerly with violence and vast desolation
and elsewhere united lands that were separate before, by filling up the
Vicinas urbes alit, et grave sentit aratrum."
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