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e mediis hunc harenis in caelum attolli prodidere, asperum, squalentem qua vergat ad litora oceani, cui cognomen inposuit, eundem opacum nemorosumque et scatebris fontium riguum qua spectet africam, fructibus omnium generum sponte ita subnascentibus, ut numquam satias voluptatibus desit. incolarum neminem interdiu cerni; silere omnia haut alio quam solitudinum horrore; subire tacitam religionem animos propius accedentium praeterque horrorem elati super nubila atque in vicina lunaris circuli. eundem noctibus micare crebris ignibus, aegipanum satyrorumque lascivia inpleri, tibiarum ac fistulae cantu tympanorumque et cymbalorum sonitu strepere. haec celebrati auctores prodidere praeter herculi et perseo laborata ibi. spatium ad eum inmensum incertumque. fuere et hannonis carthaginiensium ducis commentarii punicis rebus florentissimis explorare ambitum africae iussi, quem secuti plerique e graecis nostrisque et alia quidem fabulosa et urbes multas ab eo conditas ibi prodidere, quarum nec memoria ulla nec vestigium exstat.

Naturalis Historia. Pliny the Elder. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.

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