9
He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
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Verse 9. Roots, in quest of precious metals. Menochius.—“Imus in viscera terræ et in sede Marium opes quærimus.” Pliny xxxiii. pref.
Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum. Ovid, Met. i.
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