Nympharum, quibus e scibant umori' fluenta
Lubrica proluvie larga lavere umida saxa,
Umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco,
Et partim plano scatere atque erumpere campo.[534]
In this representation of the sea-shore—
Concharumque genus parili ratione videmus
Pingere telluris gremium, qua mollibus undis
Litoris incurvi bibulam pavit aequor harenam,[535]—
there is the same suggestion of quiet ceaseless movement, as in a line of the Odyssey representing the same phase of Nature—
λαΐγγας πότι χέρσον ἀποπλύνεσπε θάλασσα.