Εven the name which the Hellene gave it with his painted language, when he called it `thalassa`, is as if he is making you hear its cool whistle and its echoes, and you fancy that in these are tens of thousands of voices, from the innumerable living things which seethes like a white flower on the valorous waves of the ocean and collects like jasmin on the headlands and on the sandy shores. (...)
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