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Updated: May 25, 2025
To him the child of Thaumas spoke thus with roseate lips: 'Turnus, what no god had dared promise to thy prayer, behold, is brought unasked by the circling day. Aeneas hath quitted town and comrades and fleet to seek Evander's throne and Palatine dwelling-place. Nor is it enough; he hath pierced to Corythus' utmost cities, and is mustering in arms a troop of Lydian rustics.
If the moon is a Deity, the morning-star, the other planets, and all the fixed stars are also Deities; and why shall not the rainbow be placed in that number? for it is so wonderfully beautiful that it is justly said to be the daughter of Thaumas.
I understand it not; it may be: is it true?" so that they should rather have retained the form of pupils at threescore years old than to go out doctors, as they do, at ten. Whoever will be cured of ignorance must confess it. Iris is the daughter of Thaumas; Cicero, De Nat. admiration is the foundation of all philosophy, inquisition the progress, ignorance the end.
Those which enjoy not a proper subsistence are only in appearance; of this sort is the rainbow. Thus the continent to us that sail seems to be in motion. Plato says, that men admiring it feigned that it took origination from one Thaumas, which word signifies admiration. Homer sings: Jove paints the rainbow with a purple dye, Alluring man to cast his wandering eye.
Plato afterwards, making her daughter of Thaumas, incarnated a fact, psychological, but none the less constant, none the less natural.
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