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tains, for so they might justly be termed, if the
enormous swell of the neighboring· Alps did not
in appearance diminish their elevation, were for-
merly, it seems, inhabited by a race of sooth-
sayers, who vied with the Tuscans in the art of
looking into futurity. One of these seers, accord-
ing to Lucan, beheld the battle of Pharsalia while
seated on his native hill, and described to his as-
tonished auditors, all the vicissitudes of that
bloody contest* *, on the very morning on which
it took place. Aldus Gellius relates the same
story, but attributes it to a priest of the name of
Cornelius, a citizen of Padua, without mention-
ing, as he frequently does, the author from whom
he derived the tale. But, whether it was a Paduan
priest or an Euganean soothsayer, who was
gifted with this extraordinary power of vision, it
proves at least that claims to the faculty termed
Amissum lympbis reparant impune vigorem,
Pacaturque, negro luxuriante, dolor. Eidyl. Apon;
* Euganeo, si vera tides memorantibus, Augur
Colle sedens, Aponus terris ubi fumifer exit,
Atque Antenorei dispergitur unda Timavi,
Venit summa dies, geritur res maxima, dixit,
Impia concuirunt Pompeii et Caesaris arma.
Luc. vii. 192.
(The poet’s geography is not very accurate.)
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tains, for so they might justly be termed, if the
enormous swell of the neighboring· Alps did not
in appearance diminish their elevation, were for-
merly, it seems, inhabited by a race of sooth-
sayers, who vied with the Tuscans in the art of
looking into futurity. One of these seers, accord-
ing to Lucan, beheld the battle of Pharsalia while
seated on his native hill, and described to his as-
tonished auditors, all the vicissitudes of that
bloody contest* *, on the very morning on which
it took place. Aldus Gellius relates the same
story, but attributes it to a priest of the name of
Cornelius, a citizen of Padua, without mention-
ing, as he frequently does, the author from whom
he derived the tale. But, whether it was a Paduan
priest or an Euganean soothsayer, who was
gifted with this extraordinary power of vision, it
proves at least that claims to the faculty termed
Amissum lympbis reparant impune vigorem,
Pacaturque, negro luxuriante, dolor. Eidyl. Apon;
* Euganeo, si vera tides memorantibus, Augur
Colle sedens, Aponus terris ubi fumifer exit,
Atque Antenorei dispergitur unda Timavi,
Venit summa dies, geritur res maxima, dixit,
Impia concuirunt Pompeii et Caesaris arma.
Luc. vii. 192.
(The poet’s geography is not very accurate.)