Eruption of Mount Etna
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Etna · eruption of the fires of Etna · the fire-flood from Aetna
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On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
But let us think of darkness as great as that which once, by an eruption of the fires of Etna, is said to have darkened the neighbouring regions, so that for two days no man recognised a man;
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On the Nature of the Gods
A historical volcanic eruption that darkened surrounding lands for two days, used as an analogy for the wonder people would feel at sudden light.
But let us think of darkness as great as that which once, by an eruption of the fires of Etna, is said to have darkened the neighbouring regions, so that for two days no man recognised a man;
History of the Peloponnesian War
A volcanic eruption of Mount Etna at the start of spring, placed by Thucydides within a longer historical sequence of eruptions since Greek settlement.
It is said that this eruption took place fifty years after the preceding one;
Just about the beginning of this spring, the fire flood issued from Aetna, as it had done on former occasions, and destroyed some of the territory of the Catanaeans, who live on Mount Etna, the largest mountain in Sicily.