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Sciendum tamen est, extra hanc insulam flumen esse, et alias modicas insulas, quarum vna dicitur Carmagite, de quibus licitum est ijs accessire viros, et amasios bis in anno, ita vt nulla moram trahat septem dierum naturalium sub poena indubitata occisionis. Infantem masculum nutrire licet quoadusque per se comedat et gradiatur, tunc transmittendus est in domum paternam.
Thus the river hurled and hammered at the mill-dam so that it trembled, and the logs leaped as they would spring over it, and the voice of Flumen shouted hoarsely and hungrily, "Yet will I mar the Mill and have the Maid!"
But fear have I of the day when thou ridest forth in thy quest." "Well, as to that," said he, "when I have overcome this false devil Flumen, then will we consider and appoint that day." So the delay continued, and Martimor was both busy and happy at the Mill, for he liked and loved this damsel well, and was fain of her company. Moreover the strife with Flumen was great joy to him.
Iam vero quicquid ultra Nigrum flumen est et Agyptum, versus utrumque mare Atlanticum Rubrumque, Athiopes tenuerunt, gens omnium Africae terrae amplissima, extra Africam a vetustissimis Geographorum posita. Divisa fuit Athiopia in varia Athiopum genera; quorum Ptolemaeus innumera tradit nomina.
So he sware, and even as the Name passed his teeth, the gobbets of foam floated forth from the gate, and the water-weed writhed away with the stream, and the river flowed fair and softly, with a sound like singing. Then Martimor came back to the Mill, and told how Flumen was overcome and made to swear a pact. Thus their hearts waxed light and jolly, and they kept that day as it were a love-day.
It is little likely that my search will ever be renewed, and for me the Galaesus "dulce Galaesi flumen" is the stream I found and tracked, whose waters I heard mingle with the Little Sea. The memory has no sense of disappointment.
Who could wish Virgil to be one of the spirits that Lethaeum ad flumen Dues evocat agmine magno, that are called once more to the Lethean stream, and that once more, forgetful of their home, "into the world and wave of men depart?"
"And one day," she cried, holding fast to him and trembling, "one day Flumen will have me, when thou art gone." "Not so," said he, "by the faith of my body that foul fiend shall never have thee. I will bind him, I will compel him, or die in the deed." So he went forth, upward along the river, till he came to a strait Place among the hills.
The Arabs will tell you that these springs come straight from the Euphrates, by an underground channel through which the great river flows beneath the Persian Gulf, doubtless being the same legend alluded to by Pliny when he says, 'Flumen per quod Euphratem emergere putant. There are many of them the Garsari well, Um-i-Shaun, Abu Zeidan, and the Adari, which last supplies many miles of date-groves through a canal of ancient workmanship.
The lilt of his lines is capable of ringing, and does so again and again, into something very like the thrill and resonance of the Grand Manner. Listen for it especially in the third and fourth lines of this: Quid debeas, o Roma, Neronibus Testis Metaurum flumen et Hasdrubal Devictus, et pulcher fugatis Ille dies Latio tenebris.
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