nondum caesa suis peregrinum ut viseret orbem
montibus in liquidas pinus descenderat undas
nullaque mortales praeter sua litra norant
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, Lines 94-6
Pine trees culled from their mountains did not then sink beneath the flowing waves, in order that they might see the whole wide world, and mortal men knew nothing past their own shores.
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