• Till his sight could follow them no more, on account of the exceeding vastness of the space between. ↩
• Canto XXII 133. ↩
• The first climate is the torrid zone, the first from the equator. From midst to end, is from the meridian to the horizon. Dante had been, then, six hours in the Heaven of the Fixed Stars; for, as Milton says, Paradise Lost , V 580:⁠— “Time, though in eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.” ↩
• Being now in the meridian of the Straits of Gibraltar, Dante sees to the westward of Cadiz the sea Ulysses sailed, when he turned his stern unto the morning and made his oars wings for his mad flight, as described in Inferno XXVI . ↩
• Eastward he almost sees the Phoenician coast; almost, and not quite, because, say the commentators, it was already night there. ↩