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 ... terrible manner, and throw vast masses up to the surface, as in Asia, Delos arose, and Hiera; and also Anaphe and Rhodes, which has at different times been called Ophiusa and Pelagia, and was once watered with a shower of gold;[72] and Eleusis in Boeotia, and the Hellenian islands in the Tyrrhenian sea, and many other islands. Or they are climatiae,[73] which, with a slanting and oblique blow, level cities, edifices, and mountains. Or chasmatiae,[74] which suddenly, by a violent motion, open huge ...
— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus |
