[414] Luke xxiii. 44.

[415] Par. xxix. 97-102.

[416] Dante believed the death of Christ to have taken place when it was noon in Jerusalem. Conv. IV. xxiii. 105-106.

[417] Purg. iv. 137-139.

[418] Purg. xxvii. 1-5.

[419] Orosius says: “Europæ in Hispania occidentalis oceanus termino est, maxime ubi apud Gades insulas Herculis columnæ visuntur.... Asia ad mediam frontem orientis habet in oceano Eoo ostia fluminis Gangis.”

[420] Qu. xix. 38-52.

[421] Moore, Studies in Dante iii. p. 124.

[422]

“The strait pass, where Hercules ordained The boundaries not to be o’erstepped by man.” Inf. xxvi. 107-109. (Carey).