[405] T. ix. c. 6. Claudian describes this occurrence in the following words:

“Cum Thessaliam scopulis inclusa teneret

Peneo stagnante palus, et mersa negarent

Arva coli, trifida Neptunus euspide montes

Impulit adversos: tum forti saucius ictu

Dissiluit gelido vertex Ossæus Olympo.”

De raptu Proserp. I. ii. v. 179.

[406] L. i c. 3.

[407] According to Wheeler, who was on the spot, it appears to have broken through the Mount Ptous.

[408] Bibliothec. Historic. l. v. c. 47.