Note 112 — BOOK VIII.

Illic, ut perhibent, aut intempesta silet nox Semper, et obductâ densantur nocte tenebræ; Aut redit a nobis Aurora, diemque reducit; Nosque ubi primus equis oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper.

There, as they say, perpetual night is found, In silence brooding o’er th’ unhappy ground. Or when Aurora leaves our northern sphere, She lights the downward heav’n and rises there; And when on us she breathes the living light Red Vesper kindles there the tapers of the night.