Now the down
Of softness is exchang’d for plumes of age.
v. 58. The farthest gloom.] L’ultima sera. Ariosto, Oroando Furioso c. xxxiv st. 59: Che non hen visto ancor l’ultima sera.
And Filicaja, c. ix. Al Sonno.
L’ultima sera.
v. 79. Marcia.]
Da fredera prisci
Illibata tori: da tantum nomen inane
Connubil: liceat tumulo scripsisse, Catonis
Martia
Lucan, Phars. 1. ii. 344.
v. 110. I spy’d the trembling of the ocean stream.] Connubil il tremolar della marina.
Trissino, in the Sofonisba.]
E resta in tremolar l’onda marina
And Fortiguerra, Rleelardetto, c. ix. st. 17. —visto il tremolar della marine.
v. 135. another.] From Virg, Aen. 1. vi. 143. Primo avulso non deficit alter
CANTO II
v. 1. Now had the sun.] Dante was now antipodal to Jerusalem, so that while the sun was setting with respect to that place which he supposes to be the middle of the inhabited earth, to him it was rising.