[p. 11]
Iam pridem pos terga diem solemque relinquunt,
Iam pridem notis extorres finibus orbis
Per non concessas audaces ire tenebras
Ad rerum metas extremaque litora mundi;
5 Nunc illum pigris immania monstra sub undis
Qui ferat Oceanum, qui saeuas undique pistris
Aequoreosque canes, ratibus consurgere prensis.
Accumulat fragor ipse metus. iam sidere limo
Nauigia et rapido desertam flamine classem
10 Seque feris credunt per inertia
fata marinis
Tam non felici laniandos sorte relinqui.
Aera pugnaci Iuctatus rumpere uisu,
Vt nihil erepto ualuit dinoscere mundo,
15 Obstructa in talis effundit pectora uoces:
Quo ferimur? fugit ipse dies orbemque relictum
Vltima perpetuis claudit natura tenebris.
Anne alio positas ultra sub cardine gentes
Atque alium flabris intactum quaerimus orbem?
20 Di reuocant rerumque uetant cognoscere finem
Mortales oculos: aliena quid aequora remis
Et sacras uiolamus aquas diuumque quietas
Turbamus sedes?
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Latini declamatores in descriptione Oceani
[p. 10]
non nimis uiguerunt; nam aut minus descripserunt,
aut nimis curiose. nemo illorum potuit tanto
spiritu dicere quanto Pedo, qui nauigante
Germanico dicit:
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