Iamque rubescebat stellis Aurora fugatis,
Cum procul obscuros collis humilemque videmus
Italiam[617].
Crebrescunt optatae aurae, portusque patescit
Iam propior, templumque apparet in arce Minervae[618].
The disappearance of the shores left behind, and the opening up of new scenes in the rapid onward voyage, leave on the mind a fresh feeling of novelty and life in such passages as—
Protinus aerias Phaeacum abscondimus arces,
Litoraque Epiri legimus, portuque subimus
Chaonio, et celsam Buthroti accedimus urbem[619];
and in this in which the historic associations of famous cities are evoked—