Wednesday, 2 October 2024

The Power of Song

carmina uel caelo possunt deducere lunam,
carminibus Circe socios mutauit Vluxi,
frigidus in pratia cantando rumpitur anguis.

Songs can pluck the moon down from the sky, through song Circe transformed the companions of Ulysses [into swine], and through singing, the snake, cool in the meadow, is burst asunder.
Virgil, Ecl. VIII.69-71. My translation.