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Even in Midian, Burton was dogged by Ovid, for when he looked round at the haggard, treeless expanse he could but exclaim, quoting the Ex Ponto, "Rara neque haec felix in apertis eminet arvis Arbor, et in terra est altera forma maris." The expedition then made for Maghair Shu'ayb, the Madiama of Ptolemy and the old capital of the land.
"Sic ait; atque oculos Rutulorum rejicit arvis" which the same Ruaeus thus construes: "Jupiter, after he had said this, immediately turns his eyes to the Rutulian fields and beholds the duel." I have given this place another exposition that he turned his eyes from the field of combat that he might not behold a sight so unpleasing to him.
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