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- There was also there a large and leafy holm oak tree with a delightful fountain underneath, which the simple-minded people regarded as rendered sacred by the presence of a certain god, and treated with great veneration. After the destruction of the continas, when the bishop wished to cut it down, the people begged him not to, because they promised that they would never again venerate in the name of religion either that tree or that place, but that only due to its shade and the agreeableness of the place, which were
not in themselves sinful, they desired to save it rather than be saved by it. (en)
- There one sees a Neptune of three-fold nature: for the island is bathed by three straits of which it is said that one is of an intense green colour, another whitish and the third rages furiously in perpetual tempests. (en)
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