 Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.  Tragédies de Sénèque - Page 348de Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Eugène Greslou, J. R. Th Cabaret-Dupaty - 1863 - 556 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...prophecy of the discovery of America. We transcribe the original first : " Venient annis sacula seris, ' Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et INGENS PATEAT TELLUS, Tethysque NOvOS detegat ORBES, Nee sit terris ultima Thule." Chorus Meth'vc, act. secund. Now let us sec how these pregnant hendecasyllables... | |
 | 1822 - 516 pages
...orbis. Indus gelidum potat Araxem : Albim Persae , Rhenunaque bibunt. "Venient annis secula seris , Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tethysque novos detegat orbes , Nec sit terris ultima Thule. retenir sous leur joug , n'ont plus besoin que Minerve leur construise... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1823 - 362 pages
...orbis. Indus gelidum potat Araxeii : Albim Persas, Rhenumque, bibunt. Venient annis saecula sens, 375 Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tethysque novos detegat orbes ; ACTUS III. NUTRÍS. MEDEA. Nutr. Alumna, celerem quo rapis tectis pedem ? Resiste, et iras comprime,... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 638 pages
...that Seneca predicted the discovery of America in these remarkable lines : Venient annis saecula sens, Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tethysque novos detegat orbes ; Nee sit terris ultima Thule. « See Note VIII. Roger Bacon also, in his Opus Majus, pointed with... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1835 - 400 pages
...Pervius orbis. Indus gelidum potat Araxen; 375 Albin Persae Rhenumque bibunt. Venient annis secula sens, Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tethysque novos detegat orbes, 380 Nec sit terris ultima Thule. ACTUS TEBTIUS. NUTRIX, MEDEAIn vindictam praecep, fertur Nedea, tmtrice... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1836 - 402 pages
...orbis. Indus gelidum potat Araxem : A lliicn Persae, Rhenumque bibunt. Venient annis saecula seris Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tethysque novos detegat orbes, Nee sit terris ultima Thule. » C'est le passage si souvent cité par Christophe Colomb , Pierre Martyr... | |
 | C. Julius Solinus, Alphonse Agnant - 1847 - 440 pages
...prédiction , ou au moins la prévision de la découverte de l'Amérique : Venient annis secula seris, Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tethysque novos detegat orbes , Nee sit terris ultima Thule. 107. — Diulina. Nous avons traduit ce mot par presque en tout temps... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 pages
...like confidence is exprest in those lines of the chorus in the Medea : Venient annis saecula sens, Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus ; Tethysque novos detegat orbes ; Nee sit terns ultima Thule : lines evidently belonging to a later age than that of Ovid, to whom... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1851 - 474 pages
...the ancients imagined the northern extremity of the habitable globe. * Venient annis Ssecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat tellus, Tethysque novos Detegat orbes, nee sit terris Ultima Thule. Seneca, Med. CHAPTER V. HISPANIA. AG Plate IU. SPAIN was antiently called... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...it seems, of the Boman empire. Seneca, the tragedian, hath these verses: Venient minis Ssecula sens, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tethysque novos Detegat orbes ; nee sit terris Ultima Thnle :' a prophecy of the discovery of America. The daughter of Polycrates... | |
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