"Sicut aquae tremulum labris ubi lumen aenis sole repercussum aut radiantis imagine lunae omnia pervolitat late loca, iamque sub auras erigitur summique ferit laquearia tecti."
— Aeneid

January 1, 1970

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Compare: — Ἠελίου ὥς τίς τε δόμοις ἐνιπάλλεται αἴγλη ὕδατος ἐξανιοῦσα, τὸ δὴ νέον ἠὲ λέβητι ἠέ που ἐν γαυλῷ κέχυται· ἡ δ᾽ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα ὠκείῃ στροφάλιγγι τινάσσεται ἀίσσουσα. — As a sunbeam quivers upon the walls of a house when flung up from water, which is just poured forth in a caldron or a pail may be; and hither and thither on the swift eddy does it dart and dance along. — Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (c. 250 BC), lines 756–759 (tr. R. C. Seaton)