"Know, at Æeta'a court a maiden dwells Deep skilled by Hecate in magic spells: All plants she knows that grow on mountains steep, On vales, or meads, or in the boundless deep; By these she quells the fire's relentless force, Stops the mad torrent in its headlong course, Retards the planets as they roll on high, And draws the Moon reluctant from the sky."
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Compare: — There a Massylian priestess I have found, Honored for age, for magic arts renowned... She stops the torrents, leaves the channel dry, Repels the stars, and backward bears the sky. The yawning earth rebellows to her call, Pale ghosts ascend, and mountain ashes fall. — The Works of Virgil, tr. by John Dryden (1697), Aeneid, IV. 698–709
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