I shake myself from sleep and, climbing to the roof's topmost height, stand with straining ears: even as… — Virgil
I shake myself from sleep and, climbing to the roof's topmost height, stand with straining ears: even as, when fire falls on a cornfield while south winds are raging, or the rushing torrent from a mountain-stream lays low the fields, lays low the glad crops and labours of oxen and drags down forests headlong, spell-bound the bewildered shepherd hears the roar from a rock's lofty peak.
Excutior somno et summi fastigia tecti
Ascensu supero atque arrectis auribus asto:
In segetem veluti cum flamma furentibus Austris
Incidit, aut rapidus montano flumine torrens
Sternit agros, sternit sata laeta boumque labores
Praecipitisque trahit silvas; stupet inscius alto
Accipiens sonitum saxi de vertice pastor.
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