vix sola sufficiunt insessaque pondere tantosubter anhelat humus; nec ferro aut aere: laborantsub genio, teneat quamvis aeterna crepido,quae superingesti portaret culmina montiscaeliferique attrita genu durasset Atlantis.

Scarce doth the soil hold, and the ground pants beneath the pressure of so vast a weight; and not of iron or bronze: tis under thy deity it trembles, ay, even should an everlasting rock support thee, such as would bear the peaks of a mountain piled upon it, or have endured to be pressed by the knee of heaven-sustaining Atlas.