Excerpt from The Sicilian Translators of the Twelfth Century and the First Latin Version of Ptolemy's Almagest This name gives rise to a difficulty, for the lake of Pergusa, the fabled scene of the rape of Proserpine (ovid, Metam. 5, 386; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae, 2, 1 lies in the vicinity of Castrogiovanni, the ancient Enna, at so considerable a dis tance from Etna that there would be no possible danger to an observer. The phrase ethnea miracula would seem too definite to be interpreted as volcanic phenomena which ...
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Excerpt from The Sicilian Translators of the Twelfth Century and the First Latin Version of Ptolemy's Almagest This name gives rise to a difficulty, for the lake of Pergusa, the fabled scene of the rape of Proserpine (ovid, Metam. 5, 386; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae, 2, 1 lies in the vicinity of Castrogiovanni, the ancient Enna, at so considerable a dis tance from Etna that there would be no possible danger to an observer. The phrase ethnea miracula would seem too definite to be interpreted as volcanic phenomena which might occur in the region of Pergusa at a time of disturbance of Etna. Possi bly the author meant some fount in the neighborhood of Etna otherwise unknown to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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