Greek Texts & Translations

Thronium ^note more than half that number. That a torrent of water gushed forth taking three directions, one to Scarphe and Thronium, another to Thermopylae, and a third to the plains of Daphnus in Phocis. That the springs of [many] rivers were for several days dried up; that the course of the Sperchius ^note was changed, thus rendering navigable what formerly were highways; that the Boagrius ^note flowed through another channel; that many parts of Alope, Cynus, and Opus were injured, ^note and the castle of Oeum, which commands the latter city, entirely overturned. That part of the wall of Elateia ^note was thrown down; and that at Alponus, ^note during the celebration of the games in honour of Ceres, twenty-five maidens, who had mounted a tower to enjoy the show exhibited in the port, were precipitated into the sea by the falling of the tower. They also record that a large fissure was made [by the water] through the midst of the island of Atalanta, ^note opposite Euboea, ^note sufficient for ships to sail in; that the course of the channel was in places as broad as twenty stadia between the plains; and that a trireme being raised [thereby] out of the docks, was carried over the walls. 21

Those who desire to instil into us that more perfect freedom from [ignorant] wonder, which Democritus and all other philosophers so highly extol, should add the changes which have been produced by the migrations of various tribes: we should thus be inspired with courage, steadiness, and composure. For instance, the Western Iberians, ^note removed to the regions beyond the Euxine and Colchis, being separated from Arme-