[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.