Breathes on them, to refresh the happy race.”[9]
5. The Isles of the Blest[10] are on the extreme west of Maurusia,[11] near where its shore runs parallel to the opposite coast of Spain; and it is clear he considered these regions also Blest, from their contiguity to the Islands.
6. He tells us also, that the Ethiopians are far removed, and bounded by the ocean: far removed,—
“The Ethiopians, utmost of mankind,
These eastward situate, those toward the west.”[12]
Nor was he mistaken in calling them separated into two divisions, as we shall presently show: and next to the ocean,—
“For to the banks of the Oceanus,
Where Ethiopia holds a feast to Jove,
He journey’d yesterday.”[13]
Speaking of the Bear, he implies that the most northern part of the earth is bounded by the ocean: