The Phoenix.[92]

There is a leafy wood fringed by Ocean’s farthest marge beyond the Indes and the East where Dawn’s panting coursers first seek entrance; it hears the lash close by, what time the watery threshold echoes to the dewy car; and hence comes forth the rosy

[92] C. follows Herodotus (ii. 73) fairly closely.

[224]

unde rubet ventura dies longeque coruscis 5

nox adflata rotis refugo pallescit amictu:

haec fortunatus nimium Titanius ales

regna colit solusque plaga defensus iniqua

possidet intactas aegris animalibus oras

saeva nec humani patitur contagia mundi. 10