"Jamque vale Soli cum diceret Ambrociotes,

In Stygios fertur desiluisse lacus,

Morte nihil dignum passus: sed forte Platonis

Divini eximum de nece legit opus."

—Callimachus.

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Now there was wind that night, wild wind, and rain;

And frantic thorns, that huddled on the wold,

Seemed withered witches met in storm again

To keep their Sabbath and to curse and scold,