The poet Valerius Flaccus lived in the second half of the first century AD.
| non ita Tyrrhenus stupet Ioniusque magister | qui iam te, Tiberine, tuens clarumque serena | arce pharon praeceps subito nusquam ostia, nusquam | Ausoniam videt et seavas accedere Syrtes. | Not so thunderstruck stands the Ionian or Tyrrhenian skipper, when, as he gazes towards Tiber and the lighthouse clearly sighted 'neath a summer sky, suddenly driven headlong he sees nowhere the river mouth, nowhere Ausonia, but the fierce Syrtes drawing nigh. Translation: Loeb, Mozley. |