From Vergil's Fourth Georgic
[VERSES 360 ET SEQ.]
And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountainsStood, and received him in its mighty portalAnd led him through the deep's untrampled fountains
He went in wonder through the path immortalOf his great Mother and her humid reignAnd groves profaned not by the step of mortal
Which sounded as he passed, and lakes which rainReplenished not girt round by marble caves'Wildered by the watery motion of the main
Half 'wildered he beheld the bursting wavesOf every stream beneath the mighty earthPhasis and Lycus which the ... sand paves,
The chasm where old Enipeus has its birthAnd father Tyber and Anienas[?] glowAnd whence Caicus, Mysian stream, comes forth
And rock-resounding Hypanis, and thouEridanus who bearest like empire's signTwo golden horns upon thy taurine brow
Thou than whom none of the streams divineThrough garden-fields and meads with fiercer power,Burst in their tumult on the purple brine
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