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The same spring, there issued a great stream of fire out of the mountain Aetna, as it had also done in former times, and burned part of the territory of the Catanaeans, that dwell at the foot of Aetna, which is the highest mountain of all Sicily.
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From the last time that the fire brake out before to this time, it is said to be fifty years.
And it hath now broken out thrice in all since Sicily was inhabited by the Grecians.
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These were the things that came to pass this winter.
And so ended the sixth year of this war written by Thucydides.
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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