Note 2140 — Chapter I
W. (William) Falconer translation
Virgil speaks of this great catastrophe, Æn. iii. 414,
“Hæc loca, vi quondam et vasta convulsa ruina (Tantum ævi longinqua valet mutare vetustas,) Dissiluisse ferunt: cum protinus utraque tellus Una foret, venit medio vi pontus, et undis Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit: arvaque et urbes Litore diductas angusto interluit æstu.”