2021,Leone Ross,This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page316:
Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of themons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.
Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs, hoc metuēns, mōlemque etmontīs īnsuper altōs imposuit, [...].
But the all-powerful Father [Jupiter] had hidden [the winds] in dark caverns, [because he was] fearing this [destruction], and above [them] he placed massive highmountains, [...]. (The words “molemque et montis” exemplifyalliteration andhendiadys.)
et eunt hominēs mīrārī altamontium et ingentēs flūctūs maris et lātissimōs lāpsūs flūminum et ōceanī ambitum et gȳrōs sīderum, et relinquunt sē ipsōs, …
And men go to marvel at the heights ofmountains and the huge waves of the sea and the widest courses of rivers and the flow of the ocean and the circuits of the stars, and they forsake themselves, […].
parturiunt montēs, nāscētur rīdiculus mūs(“much is promised, but little will be performed”, literally“the mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born”).
montēs aurī pollicērī(“to make great promises”, literally“to promise mountains of gold”).
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōns, -tis”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page388
