No navel is there of the earth or sea:Thus fitly did the God chastise this bold enquirer into ancient traditions.
'Tis known to Gods alone, if one there be.
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THERE is an old story, friend Terentius Priscus, that
heretofore eagles or swans, flying from the opposite bounds
of the earth, met together where now stands the temple of
Apollo Pythius, in the place now called the Navel; and
that some while after, Epimenides the Phaestian, willing to
satisfy his curiosity, enquired of the oracle of Apollo with
regard to this story, but received such an answer as made
him never a jot the wiser; upon which he said:
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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