Dux Danus Ogerus, ac manducauit de illis, vnde et nonnulli præ sensus stoliditate vel fidei leuitate putant ipsum adhuc alibi viuere in terris.

Et Noueritis, vt praedixi, me pauca eorum vidisse, quæ in terris sunt mirabilium, sed nec hic scripsisse centessimam partem eorum quæ vidi, quod nec omnia memoriæ commendare potui, et de commendatis multa subticui, proptèr modestiam, quam decet omnibus actibus addi.

Si foret in terris rideret Democritus, seu, &c. A satirical Roman in his time, thought all vice, folly, and madness were all at full sea, Omne in praecipiti vitium stetit.

The same belike Tritemius calls Ignios et sublunares, qui nunquam demergunt ad inferiora, aut vix ullum habent in terris commercium: "Generally they far excel men in worth, as a man the meanest worm; though some of them are inferior to those of their own rank in worth, as the blackguard in a prince's court, and to men again, as some degenerate, base, rational creatures, are excelled of brute beasts.

Terris proscriptus, ad coelum propera; ab hominibus desertus, ad deum fuge.

And as to a traveller great mountains seem plains afar off, at last are not discerned at all; cities, men, monuments decay,nec solidis prodest sua machina terris, [3907]the names are only left, those at length forgotten, and are involved in perpetual night.

Dii talem a terris avertite pestem.

Nihil omnino meliorem vitam degunt, quam ferae in silvis, jumenta in terris.

In terris purum illum aetherem non invenies, et ventos serenos; nimbos potius, procellas, calumnias.

Omnes capitis dolores et phantasmata tollit; scias nullam herbam in terris huic comparandam viribus et bonitate nasci.

Rara quidem dea tu es O chastitas in his terris, nec facile perfecta, rarius perpetua, cogi nonnunquam potest, ob naturae defectum, vel si disciplina pervaserit, censura compresserit. 5920.

Multis illi multos annos precantibus diri carcinomatis venene contabuit, nexibusque vitae paulatim resolutis, e terris, meliora sperans, emigravit.

Paulatim mores, animum, vitamque refingit, Effigiemque Dei, quantum servare licebit, Induit, et, terris major, coelestia spirat.

Qui, mutare vias ausus terraeque marisque, Trajecit montes nauta, fretumque pedes, Xerxi, tercentum Spartae Mars obstitit acris Militibus; terris sit pelagoque pudor!

Timon sub terris; janitor orci, Cerbere, te morsu ne petat ille, cave.

O rara avis in terris, oh phoenix!

Omnibus in terris, quoe sunt à Gadibus usque Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multùm diversa, remotâ Erroris nebulâ Juv.

[O curvæ in terris animæ, et coelestium inanes.

Ostendunt terris hunc tantùm fata, nec ultrà esse sinunt.

Quae reggio in terris ...

In reference to the discovery of America by Madoc, pp. 7 12 25 57, it may amuse your readers to be informed that Seneca shadows forth such a discovery: "Venient annis sæcula seris Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Ichthysque novos deteget orbes; Nec sit terris ultima Thule.

EMMONS, ARTHUR B. Men against the clouds, by Arthur B. Emmons, Richard L. Burdsall, Terris Moore & Jack Theodore Young.

SEE KELTY, MARY G. MOORE, TERRIS.

v. 206 sqq.: "Cum vero in vastos surget Nemeaeus hiatus, Exoriturque Canis, latratque Canicula flammas Et rabit igne suo geminatque incendia solis, Qua subdente facem terris radiosque movente" etc. Pliny, Naturalis Historic xviii.

And if, as some suppose, the same Seneca were the author of the tragedies, he expresses himself to the same purpose in the following chorus of the Medea: Venient annis Secula feris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxat, et ingens Pateat tellus, Typhysque novos Detegat orbes, nec sit terris Ultima Thule.