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.Virgil thus describes the residence of a remote people :— 
- Jacet extra sidera Tellus, 
Extra anni solisque vias, ubi ccelifer Atlas 
Axem humero torquet, stellis ardentibus aptum.—AMN. vi. 795. 
The Variorum edition has the following note upon this passage : 
— Proferet imperium ultra tellurem si qua habitatur (mamque de 
hoc ambigebant veteres) extra sidera majora et Planetas, qui intra 
Tropicos decurrunt, ultra rq zexavuerq, nempe avrazova nobis. Sed 
quid dicemus de Atlante, qui uterque juxta Zodiacum situs, imo 
citra equatorem. Vel igitur Poeta in honorem Augusti, sedem At- 
lanti assignat nota remotiorem usque ad AXthiopas, quos M. Petro- 
nius Romanorum Dux subegit; ubi Herodoto, Pomponio, et Plinio 
sunt Atlantis populi. Vel respexit ad insulam Atlantis, cujus memi- 
nit Plato, in Timzo, et alii, novam silicet orbem a Columbo reper- 
tam, Anno salutis 1592 ; quem tamen scivisse magis illos, quam no- 
visse scribit Lipsius, &c. &c.” 
The passage referred to in the above note, from Plato “ in Ti- 
mzo,” stands thus Nico yee weo Tov cromeros eiyev, 0 nocarcire (ws Port 
uyeis) “HeaxAéous ornras. “Hde vqcos awa Aibons qv nor ’Acias [sila && 
1g emiSaroy emt ras HAUS vaooUS ToIG TOT’ eyiyvEero Topevownevoss” x Of Tov 
wowv ex TAV meroevrineD Tao NTE‘OV» THY reek Tov cwAnSuvov Exesvov Tove 
TOV. 
Plato states moreover, that this island was covered by the sea in 
one night in consequence of an earthquake; and that the sea, be- 
ing thereby filled with mud, was no longer navigable. Other writers 
enable us to account for the report of the submersion of this land ; 
and all I need add to this passage is, that it contains the substance 
of information communicated to Solon while he was in Egypt. 
In the tract “ De Mirabilibus auditis,” attributed to Aristotle, we 
