“Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.”

Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympum
fulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.
Book I, 154
Compare: "Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood", Alexander Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, line 387; "would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus", François Rabelais, Works, book iv. chap. xxxviii.
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