“To duty there Each one convoying, as that lower doth The steersman to his port.” Purg. xxx. 4-6. (Carey).
[301] Purg. xxx. 1-3.
“If the barbarians coming from some region That every day by Helice is covered, Revolving with her son whom she delights in, Beholding Rome and all her noble works Were wonder-struck....” Par. xxxi. 31-35. (Longfellow).
[303] “Those under the sway of the seven cold oxen.”
[304] I do not know whether this comparison originated with Dante, but it was well known to Spanish sailors two centuries later. In the Arte of Navigation which was “Englished out of the Spanyshe,” by Richard Eden in 1561, Beta and Gamma of Ursa Minor are referred to as “two starres called the Guardians, or the mouth of the horne.”
[305] Par. xiii. 1-28.
[306] Par. viii. 52, 53.
[307] Par. v. 136, 137.
[308] Par. viii. 16.