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They are able because they think they are able.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

He follows his father with unequal steps.

But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.

And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run.

His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles.

Hunger that persuades to evil.

The medicine increases the disease.

All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.

To pile Ossa upon Pelion.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open.

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.

And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.

A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.