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Horace in his 16th Epode is probably alluding to these islands when he is speaking of the Civil Wars and of flying from their horrors in those beautiful lines: Nos manet Oceanus circumvagus; arva beata Petamus arva divites et insulas, &c. Strabo in another passage expresses an opinion that the Elysian fields were in the southern parts of Spain.
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