[4] Certainly, this one fable resembles that which is composed about the Aloadae, who the greatest and most glorious of all poets, Homer, says, had in contemplation to heap the three loftiest mountains on one another, and to build them into one mass, hoping that by this means there would be a road for them, as they were desirous to mount up to heaven, and that by these mountains it would be easy for them to be raised to the height of the sky. And the verses of Homer on this subject are these:— / High on Olympus’ top they strove to raise / Gigantic Ossa; and on Ossa’s heights / To place the leafy Pelion, that heaven / Might thus become accessible. But Olympus and Ossa and Pelion are the names of mountains.