Note 13 — Chapter II
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"Scotorum cumulos flevit glacialis Ierne" ("glacialis," of course, only when looked at from a southern point of view. Strabo, as we have seen, said the island was scarcely habitable from cold).
"—Totam quum Scotus Iernen Movit et infesto spumavit remige Tethys."
It is probably mere hyperbole of Claudian to say that the Roman chased the Irish out to sea,
"—nec falso nomine Pictos Edomuit, Scotumque vago mucrone secutus Fregit Hyperboreas velis audacibus undas."