Plinivs - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - Puteoli

[MangaDex]

 

[Thelele]

>it's an onsen filler episode

I spent forever trying to find a passage in Pliny that corresponds to his line "底はせり上る事もあるからいつも引き波から始まるとは限らないが…" on the first page, but in the end I just had to try to make some sense of it as best I could.

 

[xyzzy]

@Thelele

Appreciate the work you put into translating this!

 

[sylvacoer]

@Thelele - Could be the mangaka used a pastiche of things Pliny said? That said, I really appreciate the footnotes!

 

[freakofnature]

@Thelele

I'm pretty sure it's intended as a paraphrase referring to the passage on earthquakes in the 2nd book of Pliny's Natural History: "Fiunt simul cum terrae motu et inundationes maris, eodem videlicet spiritu infusi aut terrae sidentis sinu recepti."

 

[Thelele]

Thanks for your inputs all!
@freakofnature couldn't be, because he quotes that passage a few pages later ("地震を引き起こす 地中の空気 によって陸地が 冠水するように なつているのか...またそれが引く時は 大地の内部に 弓き込まれて いるのか" If you want to see what Latin looks like in Japanese)...
I found "while the sea is stirred up from the very bottom, and the monsters are driven from their depths and rolled upwards on the crest of the billow" (HN 9) so went with that as offering the most Plinian language—so I agree with @sylvacoer that it's a (slightly anachronistic) pastiche.

 

[Ced1106]

Cat's still there... 🐈🐈🐈