"Sicut aquae splendor radiatus lampade solis dissultat per tecta uaga sub imagine uibrans luminis et tremula laquearia uerberat umbra."
— Silius Italicus

January 1, 1970

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Even so, when a sunbeam is reflected in water, the light flits to and fro through the room, quivering as the reflection moves, and strikes the ceiling with flickering shadow. — Book VII, lines 142–145 — Compare: — 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. — As quick as flickering light thrown off by water in bronze bowls reflects the sun or radiant moon, now flitte