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This part of the ocean may be called the Elysian Fields of Neptune's empire; and the torrid zone, notwithstanding Ovid's remark, "non est habitabilis aestu," is rendered healthy and pleasant by these gently-blowing breezes. The ship glides smoothly on, and you soon find yourself within the northern tropic.
Forewarned he was alive to his danger, and knew, by signs not doubtful, where he was, when he approached its scene: "Et gemitum ingentem pelagi, pulsataque saxa, Audimus longe, fractasque ad litora voces; Exsultantque vada, atque aestu miscentur arenae. ... Nimirum haec ilia Charybdis!"
Let an honest curiosity be suggested to his fancy of being inquisitive after everything; whatever there is singular and rare near the place where he is, let him go and see it; a fine house, a noble fountain, an eminent man, the place where a battle has been anciently fought, the passages of Caesar and Charlemagne: "Qux tellus sit lenta gelu, quae putris ab aestu, Ventus in Italiam quis bene vela ferat."
Hic in aliquibus Aethiopiae partibus habitant publice, inhonestorum vtriusque sexus hominum consuetudinem inhonestam gerentes, et in aestu meridiano refrigerandi causa exeunt circa ciuitatem ad riparias iacere, et discurrere nudis prorsus corporibus omni pudore reiecto, ex quo procul dubio inhonesta vitia sequuntur.
As for Virgil, he sang according to the knowledge of men in his time, as another poet did of the hot zone. Quarum quae media est, non est habitabilis aestu.
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