The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Bio: Pappus of Alexandria was one of the last great Greek mathematicians of Antiquity, known for his Synagoge or Collection, and for Pappus's hexagon theorem in projective geometry.
