Note 484 — BOOK THE EIGHTH. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Virgil was of this opinion, as appears by the following lines:—
“Ast, ubi digressum Siculæ te admoverit oræ Ventus, et angusti rarescent lustra pelori; Læva tibi tellus, et longo læva petantur Æquora circuitu: dextrum fuge littus et undas 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 Littore diductas, angusto interluit æstu.” Virg. Æneid. III. 410-419.